> From: Greg Meboe <meboe@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu>
>
> On Mon, 28 Nov 1994, W. Ray Gibbons wrote:
>
[A good suggestion on using an impact wrench and stud removers eliminated
for the cause of brevity]
> > Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
>
> Ditto Ray.
[More good stuff ...]
> Just don't impact your double-nut setup too hard lest you have
> difficulty continuing with the project.
>
> Greg
Did anyone see that comic strip in Dogbert's Big Book of Business that
says "An optimist in a pessimist without any experience?" Well, you
guys are optimists. In my stag engine (which is really 2 TR7 engines
merged together) I had 2 studs break off IN THE HEAD. The amount of
corrosion that you can get out of a badly maintained engine is just not
to be believed. The studs are also angled, which doesn't help anything
either. The only way I ended up getting the head off was to hang the
car in the air supported by the head and drive the broken studs down
through the head with an air hammer. What fun. On the bright side, it
did work and the heads weren't any the worse for it (I still had to get
them welded and skimmed though).
Around that time I was talking with a mechanic who used to work on
Rolls Royces, which apparently also suffered from head corrosion
problems. He told me that they used to take a sledge and break the old
ones off, so I suppose it could be worse :-)
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