<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Howdy All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As part the head gasket replacement project, I need to address a wallowed-out and stripped cylinder head stud hole in the block.</div><div class="">(If you were standing on the manifold side of the engine, it would be the one furtherest to the front, on the manifold side.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A stud goes in straight up and down until the top of the threads are even with the block, but it wiggles like hell.</div><div class="">As you tighten the stud down further, the wiggle starts to go away, but the whole thing starts to cant back toward the rear of the block.</div><div class="">This make it impossible to slide the head down over the canted stud.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To fix this I intend to install a coiled insert. (drill just 1/32” oversized, tap, install insert).</div><div class="">I am hoping that someone from the list knows of a drilling jig/guide for the drilling phase.</div><div class="">I know better than to attempt drilling out cast iron without a steadying device of some sort.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any and all tips and advice are welcome.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The hole is 1 5/16” deep, and the threads of the stud measure 3/4”.</div><div class="">It is basically threaded top to bottom.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance.</div><div class="">I hate it when you have to fix the unknown thing to fix the known thing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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