AU ford head bolts. help before i burn the cunt

[tut]

and lol @ visegrips

i was serious... kind of...


oh, and that diamond paste works ok, but i find it better on screw heads...
but anyway, some sand and spit does the same job as the paste...

[aaron_hogan]

All this talk of "6-point sockets"....

They all mean use a QUALITY IMPACT SOCKET. Not some piece of chinese junk or a conventional crv socket. Thats a beginner's mistake that has caught many people out before you.

I have an ABW 14mm deep impact socket especially for this job.

On re-installation, as others say, buy a box of new head bolts they are torque-to-yield. You will also need a torque angle guage to complete the job.

[15UZU]

GOOD quality 14mm impact socket,big arse breaker bar with a bit of pipe on the end.


been there, done that several times.

[nitrane]

buy another motor for $300 and save yourself the clusterfuck

[muttaburra]

6 point 14mm metric impact socket + breaker bar.

If you get real stuck you can buy a product called 're-grip' - powdered diamond paste, a bit on the socket, a bit on the bolt head & you can twist the shank of the bolt in 1/2 with a big enough breaker bar.....

12 points round them off every time.

where do u buy this stuff. asked at 1 place today and they looked at me i was from mars

buy another motor for $300 and save yourself the clusterfuck

this has crossed my mind but i dont have a engine stand or crane

Havent you guys ever seen nipples like that? Her right hand one is a prime cup for sure though... one prime one is good enough I say!

Oh the au... What are you going to do about the 4 rounded off head bolts? smash on a smaller socket? Weld a new nut on? I feel your pain buddy.

thats the plan.


i pick up a set of them reverse easy outs yesterday and fucked the 3/8 to 1/2 drive i had. so i got a beter one today so i will see if i kill the fuckers. also bought a inpact driver socket. would be great if my compressor didnt shit it self and i still had a rattle gun. that would have been the easy way.

i looked at it tonight and thought fuck you, tomorrow is another day, even thou i have to work till 4.30. fuck i hate xmas. went and hired a car so i have transport till xmas. just have to get this head off so i can try and get it machined before xmas. also bought a breaker bar and a big fuck off piece of pipe.

[Madhatr]

actually better to use a breaker bar than a rattle gun. Reason being, the bolts on the exhaust side can be brittle, not so much of a problem on the AU, but the 3.9 and 4L motors have been known to snap headbolts when you are removing them. The hammer function of a rattle gun can sheer the heads off the bolt.

[PLAYA]

I was watching some show from England, on Thursday nights i think it's some embarrassing bodies or something, a chick had those nipples but worse, its the ducts that carry the milk are too short causing it.

[piss98]

I have a cream that chick could rub on her nipples that may help.

[nitrane]

they're not hemorrhoids

[piss98]

Well I wouldn't expect she'd have those on her chest anyway. :p

[2rismo]

Something like this may help ... basically a reverse Ez-Out.

If you're left with just 1 or 2 I would just drill them out

Jesus Christ! They're nipples we're talking about!

[muttaburra]

finally got the cunt of a thing off. fuck me they are tight. was a combination of big fuck off hammer. very big breaker bar and them reverse easy out things.

looks like the head gasket was on its way out so just as well i pulled it off. some pretty serious corosion inside the water jackets so i would imagine the previous owner didnt keep the maintence up on the thing.

debating on weather i keep the thing after spending so much money on it, and repairs are a tax deductions. it is comfy and it owes me fuck all, and i really dont want to buy another ute.

so question is. head is off what cam do i wack in it, how much do i shave off the head, and what extractors should i wack on it.

mods can you move this to general car section ?


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