stripped carb manifold studs....  By  newbscootdude (Read 1,237 times)

Cut the nuts with a dremel.

It is hard to turn both nuts anti-clockwise and lift the mainifold at once.
You could maybe just go ahead and cut a stud or both and replace with new studs and nuts, or with bolts.

My Xingyue has a taller manifold and uses bolts instead of studs.

if you could turn each nut counter clockwise and try prying up with a thin blade of some sort - to get it to catch.

a hacksaw could work, dremels are a very nice to have tool. (even the cheap Harborfrieght version)

ok so just tried about every leverage point i could think of tried with the hacksaw blade but couldnt get it under the nut. tried leverage with a long screw driver under the manifold pushing up got nothing, then tried down as well just to see if maybe it would catch a little that way. so i know this is kind of a stupid question but i have to ask. with the studs stripped out like this will it cause a vacuum leak between the manifold and the valve head? im pretty sure it will im just curious because it still feels like its on there pretty good.

yes, it will be a leak.

ya i tried just about everything i tried grabbing it with pliers and twisting the nut but upon closer inspection it is the nuts that are stripped and not the studs. i went and bought this pathetic little dremel and i was out there for like 1 hour and didnt even make it halfway through the nut yet..... umm if i take the engine off i can use a hacksaw wich to me at this point sounds easier just taking the rear end off the scooter and sawing away on the nuts. maybe ill go get a better pair of pliers and try it out.

ok so i finally got the nuts off with that craptastic "rotary" tool from harbor freight. and im trying to remove the studs and i have a pair of vice grips but they just keep sliding and have nothing to grab on to no matter how hard i bite down on the studs. is there a trick to getting studs out? i would try the two nuts trick but there isnt enough thread to fit two nuts on it let alone its really damage threading.

ive been using pb blaster i cant even get them to budge. i even made some scores in them with the little dremel i have so the pliers can grip a little better but nothing so far.