Spartan

No matter what I did they ended up snapping the studs. They all snapped clean with the top of the header flange so there is enough meat left to remove from the heads without drilling. From the looks of it the headers were never once remove during the life of the car.

Next step is dissasembly! So much easier the second time around (did the same thing to my 993tt motor last winter)

Metal Guru

Do you have an oxy-acetelene set-up? If you do, you could have removed every one of those nuts and never have broke a stud.
If that was my car I'd cut the broken studs off flush with the head, buy a drill guide and drill them all out. It will be a lot faster job than dealing with those stubs.

Spartan

I do not have a oxy-acetelene but it would have been nice. Nothing very fancy tool wise in my garage. Getting the broken studs out is easy with the headers off. I'd rather not risk drilling into the heads even with the right equipment!

jpc fabrication

I just removed mine with great success. Not one broken stud could not believe it. I have a 3.0L and 4 of the studs were so rust they broke. Check out stomski racing the have a great tool to line up the studs and drill the broken stud out.

Good luck

Spartan

Yeah this was the worst I've ever seen. Already got all the studs out successfully and now it's on to the next step....