Scott Allen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Friend at work broke a stud tightening down the head on his Alfa, and was
> lamenting the fact that he now had to again remove the head to replace the
> broken stud.
>
> Another co-worker chimed in that this wasn't necessary. If it had broken
> off at the top, (which it had) he could just use an "easy out" and extract
> it from the top.
>
> Now I'm a by the book sorta guy, and I think that this is bad advice, but I
> can't give words to why.
>
> Question:
>
> Anyone do this, and is it good advice just to use an easy out rather then
> (re)pulling the head?
I'm with you: it's a bad idea. If the stud is stuck in the block so
tightly that it broke off, there's very little chance an easy-out
will break it loose, especially with the easy-out at the end of the
stud, allowing the stud to flex.
I'll also bet he didn't pull the studs and slightly chamfer the
stud-hole edge in the block. Many times a bad head-to-block seal
turns out to be slightly pulled threads impeding the seal, and the
practice also tends to prevent problems like these, since pulling
the studs will show up a bad stud most times.
-Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com
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