She did at nap time earlier..

 

They are all out to some extent, outside of the on by the motor mount. That one is gonna be tricky. Only one is broke, and it was broke when I started. I got the stud and nut out on all of them but the top right. Pounding a 12mm on the tougher candidates turn out to be very beneficial. I think hitting it also helped.

 

Looks like a common issue.... our very own Brewster makes an appearance in this one.

https://www.f150online.com/forums/19...fold-bolt.html

 

I have to do this job, too, but I first need to wire for and buy (and learn to use) a welder. I have two broken studs, and there's no way they're going to play nice.

I've been driving it like this for over a year - maybe since I bought it. It's remarkably quiet (for now).

 

That's what is weird, I am 100% doing this because it looks like it's not much longer for this world. This doesn't leak either.

I plan on trying a stud extractor first. If that doesn't work somewhat quickly, I'll move to zapping a nut on there. It kind of depends what it looks like when I get to see it sticking out of the head.

 

Oh dear... do I need a 7th vehicle? It has a blown motor... but that's easy 800 in good parts, 'specially if there's not much rust.

 

Do it.

 

Yep, these gen 10's haven't changed much.

 

First time at about 165,000 miles was easy, I used an impact with a few wobblies on the studs. The 13mm nuts were rusted down to 12mm. So the studs came out with the nuts. Got most of them that way. The rest with a wrench.

The impact worked every time, much better than I thought it would at first. Had to remove the wheel well of course.

Removing two sets of headers after that was a PITA. Both had to be cut off in chunks to remove...no choice.

 

Huh, must be a 4six thing...strange for sure. Maybe that's why some end up lifting the motor.....4sixs anyway. The 5mm hex looks to be in good shape, you haven't got on that yet lol.