List,
I posted under this subject a while back, and got a few responses about
mostly 250's and 6's. So this morning, in preparation of setting the
body back on the complete frame this afternoon, I attempted to install
the oil cooler sandwich plate.
Basically the installation consists of screwing four sleeve-like pieces
(a hollow, threaded hole that you bolt the filter head bolts into, and a
threaded portion that screws into the block) into the oil filter head
holes in the block. The interesting part is that the threaded portions
are not threaded all the way to the sleeve. But the unthreaded portion,
coupled with the length of the sleeve is longer than the thickness of
the sandwich plate, which means that the sleeves would stick out past
the plate and cause the filter head not to be flush with the plate.
However, the holes in the block have a non-threaded portion to them as
well, so if I just simply screw the sleeves down to where they need to
be to not extend past the plate, using some of that non-threaded
portion..
SNAP
OK, now that the first sleeve is broken off (notice that, due to my
experience with these types of mishaps, I actually stopped at one,
instead of trying the other three to see if they'd snap off too) with
the bolt part in the block, I'll just use my easy-out to get it out.
SNAP
OK, so now that the easy-out is broken off in the broken off bolt, I
guess it's time to put the car on the trailer and tow it down to the
machine shop to hopefully have the bolt and easy out-removed without
messing up any of the other parts of this generally fully restored
rolling chassis, postpone my body reunification for yet another week,
and spend the rest of Sunday doing something else.
Sometimes I wonder why I got into this hobby!
Jeff Tedder
'66 & '67 TR4A
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