I have the hooker 2055 and can never seem to tighten all the header bolts evenly. I can tighten only a few of them with a ratchet and a 7/16 socket and get them fully torqued down, but the others I can only get a small wrench on them but cant get enough leverage or room to fully tighten them to torque. Anybody have any special/modified tools that helps them in this situation? Thanks

 

I dont have the hooker 2055's but since i put in my headers quite recently i have been tightening them quite a bit as they tend to wiggle themselves loose. Its pretty much all elbow grease, i dont have that much trouble with a box wrench getting back there, sometimes i drop it and have to go under the car and pick it up, and the back bolts are especially trickey, but it takes some time to do them, you could try going and buying a longet 7/16 box wrench so you have more leverage, or you could try a socket with one of those elbows and an extension, but that is pretty much all you could do. Thats my 2 cents.

 

I used to have the same problem all the time, but I soon switched to different header bolts entirely. Try to find a set of torx bolts, this will eliminate the need for the fatter metric socket to try to squeeze next to the runner....

 

you need something like this http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku although this one is definetaly the wrong application

 

These work, I have a friend who has these. I am currently running the split-lock fasteners with the tips dipped in some light thread compound, I have no retention issues what so ever.

 

OP is having trouble torquing them all the way down, they're not coming loose on him....

 

I understand that the stage 8's will work by not coming loose, but I cant even tighten the bolts all the way. They dont come loose I cant just cant torque them enough. I think maybe Im gonna heat and bend the head of a wrench and weld an longer handle on it and make a custom tool or something. I just figured someone on this board had done something already.

 

Doesn't anybody double up a box end wrench anymore? That's how I torqed mine to stay inplace..... You get twice the leverage.

You loop the box end around the open end of the first wrench and go to town... Some may consider it overkill but it works. The 2 wrenches have to be of similar sizes (1 up or down of the original)

I'll take a picture if you don't get what I'm talking about.....

It would save you $70.oo...... but I do like the looks of those locking bolts and have thought about them before

 

I know u can double up the wrench sammy, but thats not the problem. On the 2055' there are some bolts....especially the center ones...that u cant even get the box end around the bolt because its so close to the tube, and the open end barely does but not enough to torque it down. I think im gonna get a short socket and grind down the walls enough to allow it slide over the bolt and not hit the tube and that should do it.

 

I agree with that although, with my headers, i can usually get the open end to get around it if i place it on an angle, usually can only get like 1/8th a turn everytime, and everytime i go, why in the world would they place these bolts soo close.

 

I don't have the 2055's but I ran into the same problem with my Hedmans and a couple the bolts being too close to the primary tubes. I tightened the problem bolts like Saber did.

It's a pain in the butt, but it works..... Good Luck!!!

 

Buy a cheap box end and grind it down so that you achieve clearance.

JamesC