Hey,

Here's the deal: After 3 months i'm finally assembling my engine. The car is an S5 TII.

The problem: I'm bolting the dynamic chamber onto the intake manifold. I can only find 1 of 4 nuts that hold it on, so I try to find a nut around the house that will work. I finally find one that will tighten down farther than the first few threads.

So I tighten it down. Then I go about messing with the wiring harness, and a few minutes later I go back to this nut and notice it hasn't sealed off the gap between the intake mani. and the dynamic chamber. So I go to loosen it and what happens? The nut and stud come out. Together.

Now the nut and stud are acting like they're a uniform bolt... No matter what i've done I can't get them apart.

I've used a vice and an impact wrench with PB blaster sprayed on and it still won't come apart.

I know what I did wrong. It was stupid. I just need to know what I can do.

See attached pictures.

THANKS!

-Andrew

 

how the hell do you have a dynamic chamber on a tii?

Looks like the tii manifold not the dc? Anyhow, I would either find a bolt and screw the stud, or get some vicegrips and a vice. You'll probably end up screwing the threads up, so if you don't have a die around to fix them, I would look for a bolt with the same pitch thread

coincidentaly, my entire intake is held on by nuts/bolts from the hardware store, as I lost all the fasteners when I was doing my 5spd swap and tuneup. I was in the same boat as you, totaly sucked.

Just goto NAPA or a hardware store and find a compentent looking person and say you need like 10 bolts and 10 matching nuts from this stud, and give him/her the stud. expect to spend like.. i dunoo 3-4 dollars on the 20 pieces. quick fix.

 

Dynamic chamber according to the FSM:

See attached image.

-Andrew

 

****... learn something every day

BTW: we live in america where we would rather die than try to convert to the metric system... so of course, any hardware we find in our house will be sae and wont' work well with metric.

Which remidns me, tell the hardwarestore/napa that the stud has metric threads or they will be looking forever tofind a match

 

I find two things funny here:

1: You spelled competent wrong. Irony?
2: There are competent people at Napa?

 

1. I do it every time, you're not the first one to point it out.
2. Around here there is actually, most of the NAPA staff at our local store is on a local racing team and is quite knowledgeable. Plus they run their own machine shop connected to the napa store. Anyhow, Its a place like checkers or autozone that scares me. At least they have cheap parts to make up for it.

 

You have no sense of proper and improper pluralization do you?

 

Thanks for the help. The problem is, whenever I try to pull them apart the stud just spins and won't stand still no matter how hard I try. I tightened the vice so hard around it I thought it was going to snap in half and the stud still spun with the impact wrench.

-Andrew

 

did you try going forward with the impact then reverse? Either way at this point, I'd call that stud worthless unless you've got a die to fix the threads.

 

Kenteth, you so totally rock. I used two vice grips and they came right apart! Threads look intact too!

YES!

You've saved the day.

-Andrew

 

dude i just go to ace hardware for emergency bolts and nuts. if its for something dumb/small.. theyve got exactly what you need. and itll cost like 10 cents. needless to say however, since i got the FC ive learned alot about nutz and boltz. thread pitch.. u kno..

 

cheers