[SEL] Head bolt is out

[Rob Skinner]

On Oct 2, 2007, at 3:02 AM, cgandree at mchsi.com wrote:

> 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


Hi Curt,
Another weapon in your arsenal should be left hand drill bits. Buy a  
selection now so they'll be on hand the next time you're drilling out  
a screw.

Rob