Anyone have a trick up their sleeve?

In a header pipe we use a heat gun (like the ones for stripping paint) and put a wet rag inside the baffles, heat up the outside of the pipe and pull on the baffle, works 90% of the time...
Sometimes need some soft faced dead blow hammer action, use a towel over the hammer to keep from scratching the coating and hit it from the rear of the pipe....


Otherwise leave the bolts out and go boating, they will be gone when you get back home

GT

i have a tire iron that has a hook on it...that and some earl (wd40)

In a header pipe we use a heat gun (like the ones for stripping paint) and put a wet rag inside the baffles, heat up the outside of the pipe and pull on the baffle, works 90% of the time...
Sometimes need some soft faced dead blow hammer action, use a towel over the hammer to keep from scratching the coating and hit it from the rear of the pipe....


Otherwise leave the bolts out and go boating, they will be gone when you get back home

GT

Yup.... could damage the headers... but you want them out...

I've also rigged up a slide hammer to hook to a baffle.... tink tink tink out

Hose them down with PB blaster (Amazing stuff). Leave it sit over night, beat around the header with a board( hit the board with a hammer while holding it on the header), then soak it down again. I had to do this over 5 days to get one of mine out of my Bassetts. Then when I held the header and smacked it down on a board on the garage floor, fell right out.

Ray