Good luck gettin it in there....

Gerehead8, to answer your question they are bolts.

 

^ 1+ yea good luck, just make sure if you're usin a sawzaw that you have an extra oil filter once you goto do the passengerside cause you are deff going to destroy your current one.

 

I did this:
1. Take a wire brush attachment for a drill and dip that in a solution of 60% break free and 40% synthetic 5W20. THen drill out the rust with that wire brush attachment,

2. Spray some more Break free and oil solution and let sit overnight.

3. Hit it with some 100% break free i the morning and try to get them off with an impact gun

4. THen use a cutting wheel if all else fails. There was 1 bolt that i could jsut not get to.

Mixing the break free with the syn oil allows the actual OIL to penetrate with the break free solvent. Then the oil will not evaporate when soaking overnight.

ALso works to get stuck spark plugs out.

 

Not all of them are. My 94 built 4/94 with the 5.2 has bolts but the 5.9L I pulled out of a 94 2500 built in 2/94 had studs.

 

i think my manifold has 4 bolts and two studs ? if i rememberd correctly

 

The manifold to head connection has 4 bolts and 2 studs. Both my motors are like that. The OP and I am talking about the manifold to y-pipe connection.

 

Yeah I have only seen bolts used on the y pipe. I looked up your 94 2500 at napa and typed in exhaust stud to see if something would come up and found a bolt kit like I have always seen.

http://www.napaonline.com/Search/Det...+50022+2022010

 

I wonder if the 1st gens used studs and the manifolds were left overs from those. I was really suprised to see studs on there. They were absolutely destroyed from rust. If I still had the manifolds I would take a pic but I tossed them because they were in really bad shape.

 

The v8's have the oil filter located passenger side under the exhaust manifold right?

 

No problem man, it isn't a big deal at all. I know my buddy's ford (either 92 or 96) uses the studs your talking about so I have messed with those too. I like the bolts better anyway because if you break a stud... then you have the fun of drilling it out like we had to on one of his lol