A while back I had a stainless manifold bolt seize in my supercharger. I tried to get crafty removing it and ended up breaking it off.

I drove over to Steve's and even he was unable to remove it without likely breaking an easy-out off into it and making things worse.

Well, today (actually a couple days ago) I finally got off my a$$ and decided to fix it.

I went out and bought a tap-and-die set but was unable to find a long enough drill bit to drill through the manifold into the supercharger. I did some head scratching and came up with an alternative.

I used the manifold gasket to transfer the bolt locations onto a metal template. After drilling the holes into the metal, I had to improvise a bit (stacks of washers) to secure the template in place on the supercharger. After securing the template I drilled out the hole with a 7/32" bit and taped it to a 1/4" FT. Hopefully I'll find a new bolt without too much aggrevation.


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UPDATE: I installed a heli-coil and I'm now using the stock bolt.