My vote goes for welding something to the studs, too. I had also used a stud extractor on a broken exhaust stud successfully.

I did a bit on this but cant find it. Has the search engine gone tits up??????:eek:

Bob

Another method I have had great succes with is to put a cut down the side of where the stud/bolt is mounted and open it slightly with the right sized chisel and as you say David nut and bolt.

If you are stuck give me the nod.

Thanks I have ordered a stud removal tool off ebay and will see if it works. I am going to spray the joint with wd40 as much as possible until it arrives. If that doesn't budge I will try some of the other methods.

Exhaust. I managed to find and exhaust on ebay off a 7 style car (not sure which) it should have arrived today but I missed the delivery by about 5 minutes and they didn't try to leave it with a neighbour or behind my bin that was the instruction on the parcel!! Hope it's ok when it arrives as I got it for £25

David

I find plusgas to be better freeing off oil

Gearbox speedo adapter
 

I have finally found a supplier for the 90 degree angle for the speedo cable! 18.50 delivered. Better than 80 from toyota (used though). I have just sent the guy an email to see if he has any more available for mx5 powered builders.

David

success
 

The post man came running down my street yesterday, whilst I was working on my car and said," here are some more parts for your kit car!" Luckily it was the stud extractor and the snapped bolts came out straight away! Now just waiting for my Exhaust to turn up!

Hi David,
What type of exhaust did you go for in the end?
I see you're progressing quickly on the car now...:cool:

Hi Johno,

I bought the exhaust of ebay and was told it had been fitted to a vindicator, however i think its off a robin hood. I am only going to use this temporarily until I buy a cbs one. It should stop the neighbours complaining too much.

I am still waiting for the exhaust to arrive (after making several complaints to the courier).

fingers crossed it should be there tomorrow!!

In the meantime I have been working on my tool shadow board on the garage wall. You can never beat good tool control!

David

A bit more progress
 

I've spent a bit more time in the garage lately. I have installed my radiator and some of the pipe work. I am waiting for a gasket and an olive to turn up in the post so that I can finish it. When I took off one of the old coolant tubes to the water pump inlet the tube had corroded badly so needed replacing. I looked on mx5 parts £100! And ebay £40! So i went to the specialist breaker next to me and got one for £5 that is almost brand new. I also managed to pick up a fuel pump plug for eternal.

Here is a picture of my almost complete radiator...