You may wish to splurge for non-oem exhaust manifold nuts that are copper. I do this on my motorcycles and cars. If I ever have to remove them again, they come right off without much issue.

I just had the exhaust manifolds and studs swapped on my Toyota 4Runner V8 when the exhaust manifolds had to be replaced. The OE ones came out not too badly as I had wire brushed and PB Blasted them for a week before it went into the shop. I also splurged on Titanium studs and nuts so it won't be so...

You have one too many 4's in that part number.

abscate wrote: ↑15 Jun 2023, 06:13 Song - get a bag over that turbo intake pipe facing up, begging to gulp down a loose screw, nut, 10mm socket, or squirrel food and wreck your turbo

Luckily I was able to complete the job without incident! Thanks for the tip though.

Some people are just lucky that way.
volvolugnut

That's a narrow margin of towing error

I think you would never need to worry about hitting deer with this type exhaust. They would leave the county.
volvolugnut

abscate wrote: ↑24 Jun 2023, 14:07 Be careful and scour Fora before resetting v70 ECC control units. It is not hard to brick them.

Actually, unless I misunderstood xiaotec's changelog, the app can now unbrick ECC units. Need to try this on my bricked one.

Since the V70 is still out of commission pending a settlement from NTB... :evil: Been working on my "free" Subaru forester. I've already spent way more keeping this car on the road in the past 6 months than probably what I spent on the lifetime of my S70 (not counting oil and tires). I've...

abscate wrote: ↑23 Jun 2023, 08:48

SWMBO reports “that AC is icy now”

As we say in mathematics...

Necessary and sufficient.

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