[Healeys] Stripped Water Pump Stud

[Bob Spidell]

Agreed, but be careful; with enough leverage you could snap it off.  I'd 
soak it in your favorite penetrating oil--I like Kroil--for a few days.  
Maybe heat the area with a propane torch to help the oil penetrate.

Bob


On 5/27/2017 4:40 AM, Tom Felts wrote:
> get new and larger vice grips--seriously.
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> tom
> ---- Patrick & Caroline Quinn <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:
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> G'day
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> Had a half hour to spare this afternoon so I thought I would fit the new
> water pump to the BN3's six-cylinder engine.
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> Of the four nuts, three tightened without a problem. but I managed to strip
> the thread the stud thread on the fourth.
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> Normally I would use the twin nut method, but with the stud stripped that's
> not possible. So what to do? My 40+ year old vice-grips (mole-grips) can't
> handle the strain and I don't have a welder to weld on a nut, nor do I have
> an extractor.
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> Was thinking about filing the end of the stud flat on two sides and using a
> crescent wrench or what we call a shifting spanner. Any experienced advice
> out there?
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> Many thanks
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> Patrick Quinn
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> Blue Mountains, Australia
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