Originally Posted by Big Tracks
The exhaust manifold bolts on my Cadillac 500 were seized up and crystalized (if that's a suitable description for the situation) and stretched my dirty-word vocabulary to the maximum. Getting them out intact was impossible. It didn't take much torque at all to twist the danged things off and that's just what I did to five or six of them. I finally quit trying and took the heads to my machine shop guy and learned pretty quick that those guys are not happy when they find broken off "easy-outs" in the holes.
Jim