Well, my headers are on!
It was pretty easy to get the old ones off, just a PITA.. I got my muffler off, and thought it would be easy the rest of the way.. got to the Y-pipe and 4 bolts out of 6 stripped.. so I went to the next thing and started on the manifold bolts.. I went to feel how loose they are and found out that the back bolts on both sides have already been snapped off.. so I was a little mad.. all the others came out like butter thanks to 2 1/2 days of PB Blaster. Went under the truck again to cut the y-pipe so I could pull them out. Installed the new headers and ORY. Everything slipped on nice, except the muffler, so I was running around with just a ORY for 1 1/2 days, it was a PITA, lol.. EVERYTHING was rattling inside the truck.. Muffler is now on with 3" piping all the way back and it sounds AMAZING, a little quieter than my old set up but like I said, it sounds amazing.. Also got the Service air bag light while putting the headers in because I pulled the steering column intermediate shaft and the steering wheel wasn't secured and spun a few times and snapped the clockspring..
Here's a little video of how it sounds right now... I'll get one of a few revs later..
The two broken back bolts.. dont have exhaust leak, so I should hopefully still be good,lol.
Some sparkplug carnage from pulling the headers out, lol..
In total, the header install took about 6 hours with all the problems we ran into..
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