tightenning BB header question

[bb]

I am installng a set of BB headers on my 2.7 Turbo and have a couple of questions.

1 is there a tool that will make it easier to tighten them down?
- they don't have the holes like the stock ones and it is almost impossile to get anything on them.

[JonT]

I have a B & B muffler that may work with those headers if you are interested. Dual in/Dual out 3" outlets. Great condition. Email me at Jon.Theobald@bp.com if you are interested.

[jhugh]

I just installed GHL headers/heat exchangers last weekend. I think that situation is very similar to the one you're in. I feel for you! It was the hardest, most f*cking PIA thing I've ever done to my car. I swore and hurt myself more than ever before.

The problem is that if you use the regular hex nuts, in certain spots you just can't get a combo wrench in there. You can't make a whole turn in that tight of a space. So maddening!

Enter the allen nuts. There are no holes, so forget the handy long allen socket you had for the stock exchangers. I ended up using a little allen 90-degree wrench, the tip of which was too long at first to fit in between the heat exchanger and the heads. So I cut it down a little with a metal cutting blade on my drill. Cool! I could get in there and turn the nuts. But then I found that the flanges on the GHL headers were too thin. The studs were coming up through the allen nuts so far that I couldn't get enough purchase on them with the wrench to tighten them. So I shimmed them up with four extra washers. That finally worked.

Good luck!

[Bill Verburg]

There is a special "C" configured wrench. If it wasn't so friggen cold in my garage I would go take a pic.

[KTL]

Huh, B&B didn't give you a wrench either? Imagine that.

Had to call them for one myself

It's the wrench in the bottom middle of the picture surrounding the copper nuts



Even with this wrench, you spend a good bit of time turning the nuts a tiny bit at a time. Gotta have it or make it yourself.