[SEL] Head bolt is out

[cgandree at mchsi.com]

After all the really great suggestions of how to remove my stuck head bolt I 
went with the weld the nut onto the remaining broken stud...........well it 
did NOT work.  You would of thought it would of worked at least in theory I 
did too but no go, just proceeded in breaking off more of what was left of the 
broken stud.  Soooo I ended up grinding the stud smooth to surface and 
drilling the damn thing out.  Got lucky and it was cleaned out right to the 
remaing threads in the block.  Ended up carefully picking the remainder out 
and retapped the hole.  The only thing I could figure was that after 55 years 
of that frozen bolt being partially submerged in the water coolent jacket it 
had developed so much rust and debrie on the lower half of the threaded bolt 
there was no way in hell it was going to come out even with excess heat from 
the welding process.
Now for final cleanup and the engine is ready for all the new gaskets, both 
head and manifold and it will be back on the road again.
A very big THANK YOU to all that helped.
Curt