Scott:
You can broach the hole with a large drill bit. This removes the top
threads that have raised. Use the file to further flatten the area, and to
check that it is level. All of the lated B blocks had the stud holes
broached by the factory.
Skip...........At 06:07 PM 11/15/97 -0600, Der schwarze Buccaneer wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Skip Kelsey wrote:
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>> You should pull all the head studs and
>> broach all of the threaded stud holes. With time the torque of the studs
>> pulls the threads slightly up. If this remains, then when you retorque the
>> head it can leak between the studs. After broaching the stud holes, run a
>> file across the face of the block to make sure it is flat.
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>Skip,
> What's broaching the threads, and how do I do that :)? I think
>one of the catalogs suggested something like this, but it was and still is
>nothing but technobabble to me at the moment.
> As far as the filing, I don't mind telling you I'm more than a
>little reluctant to file the head or block, having heard about having
>machine shops precision grind this and hone that with mirco tolerances.
>(Or do you just mean flatten the 'broached' holes after broaching)?
> Pordan my ignaronce!
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> -Scott Allen
> js-allen@students.uiuc.edu
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> "At dawn we will face the greatest test of our resolve. But I
>say this: though starving, hunger will not weaken us; though diseased,
>illness will not cripple us, and though weary, exhaustion will not claim
>us. We can fight knowing that all true Reiklanders will forevermore
>honour our valiant gesture of defiance, even though our bodies be left to
>feed the beasts of carrion.
>
> Mind you...we could always surrender." -Rick Priestly's Siege
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