Re: Recoring Radiator

Posted by JayWalt on April 14, 2007 at 19:53:23 from (69.221.13.154):

In Reply to: Recoring Radiator posted by Tom Windsor on April 14, 2007 at 11:39:41:

Tom, your story reminds me of my day of hell with my 300u when i first got it. The manifold was cracked apparently because one of the studs broke off and no one fixed it and just left it there, and the manifold was allowed to do whatever it wanted until it broke. This stud helped support the muffler stack too. So I had my bro weld up the manifol, and had it resurfaced. The fun part was yet to come. Getting that stuff out, it was broke off below the surface, so no welding a nut on. Well I did the unthinkable. I drill a hole and used an easy out. Easy Out is an extremely misleading name, because not only do they not get the bolt out easily, they also are so damn brittle they break off and are not easy to get out at all. I spent 2 hours laying over the nose of the grill with a dremel tool and about 5 diamond tipped bits. I was sssssssooooooooo MAD!! So I goet it all ground out and turns out the hole gets all fudged up after 2 hours of grinding. So I ended up drilling it out to striaghten it up and installing a helicoil. It is still holding thank god. Alot more things happened with this hole that made for a hole day ordeal, but I wont get into thos =P

Heat was not my friend on this project. The heat from welding a nut on might have helps, but As for just heating it up, its kinda hard to heat up a head when its on the engine,heh. Besides All I have is a carbon arc torch which leaves alot to be desired.

Glad they came out easy for ya!!

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• Re: Recoring Radiator Tom Windsor 11:14:43 04/15/07 (0)

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