[SEL] Head bolt is out

[tamatea whanau]

Curt pleased that the stud was removed safely without damage to the engine
well done brent

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On Behalf Of R & M Ingold
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [SEL] Head bolt is out


At least, we ALL shared your troubles!!!
Its good when ya have mates looking over your shoulder as the shit hits the
fan!! VBG
Reg & Marg Ingold.
Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
randmingold at hotkey.net.au
http://www.oldengine.org/members/randmingold

----- Original Message -----
From: <cgandree at mchsi.com>
To: "Old eng list" <stationary-engine at oldengine.org>; "SEL Lists"
<sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:02 PM
Subject: [SEL] Head bolt is out


> 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
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