Hi everyone,
After many years of my roadster being off the road for a very slow going engine
swap I was hoping to have the manifolds back on and be driving it soon but I've
had another setback. One of the manifold studs that had pulled out before
while I was rebuilding the engine (L20b) a few years ago and I tapped a size
larger (10mm from 8mm) has pulled out again. This is the first of three studs
that I oversized because of threads pulling out. I'm planning on putting in a
helicoil and hoping that holds. Does anyone have any advice for me. If the
helicoil doesn't do it I'm afraid I'll have to take the head off and have a
shop weld shut the holes and re-tap them back to 8mm.
Thanks,
Matt Peterson
'68 1600 (with non-running L20b)
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