Stuck head

[Bill McIntire <william.mcintire@wright.edu>]

It's been many many years since I've had the head off my 6
and I can't remember where the stud threads are located
relative to the top of the block - hopefully at the block
surface. If you break a stud at the threads and they are
down the stud hole ... the fun has just begun.

Back toward the end of the last glacial period I was working
at a dealership and had just purchased a spany new 61  TR3.
I was retorquing the head and adjusting the valves (500 mile
instection). I leaned on one of the studs toward the middle
in an appempt to pull 110 lbs. with a short torque wrench
and almost landed on my work bench. Stud was broken from the
factory - 3+ inches down in the block. Gave a whole meaning
to drilling and tapping.

FWIW   Bill