How can i get this out please?
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im really stuck i cant get this out....



All three studs snapped, i managed to get the other two out with mole grips though. They seemed to have been locked in with that thread glue. I managed to get the other two out by heating them up and mole grips but they were really really tight, but this one i just cant get to budge at all and im afraid of snapping it clean off.

Just need some advice really, thankyou so much!

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

weld a nut onto it. Combination of getting a good grip and also whilst welding you get some good heat input into the stud. should free it off.

if it does shear off its a nice easy one to drill out.

I had a manifold stud done the other month in situ before a RR session so that ones easy!!!

tap it with a hammer to break the seal, heat it up a lot and unsrew. if it shears, drill it out

stud extractors & penetrating oil have worked for me in the past

As above, if the worst comes to the worst, carefully grind the top of it flat, then very carefully make a punch in the centre of the stud to guide a drill.
Then carefully drill down the stud, start small say 3mm. When you have established a hole of say 5mm try knocking in a tight fitting torx bit, sometimes these will have enough "bite" to unscrew the stud.
If you can't get it out just drill the bugger and then re-tap the hole.

Saw the title of the thread and thought it was going to be another "washer stuck in my engine" thread lol.
Seriously though, the above advice is sound, hope you sort it mate.

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few, i thought with a title like that there was going to be a washer in your bore/a spanner in your wok

you f*cker phil, you stole my joke!

Edited by Turbo Phil on 6th Dec, 2006.

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Edited by Nic on 6th Dec, 2006.

hehahheh, yeah i know, i bust them all the time!

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

first thing ive noticed ids the lack of penettrating oil, give it a good soaking, maybe overnite then i rekon some heat on the head around the stud part as much heat as you can get on it maybe a plumbers blow gun will do. then get some GOOD mole grips on it or a good stud extractror this should get it out, but if it doesnt follw the advise above

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

i have a stud extractor that would get that out locks onto the smallest of broken studs, its made by britool if your feeling flush

as others have said get some good penetrating oil on it

Edited by wolfie on 6th Dec, 2006.

Always make sure when u replace these to use plenty of copper slip on the threads my advice for removal has already been said, try the using the welded on nut and then heat up the metal around the stud.

I dont know many people who use stud extractors now to be honest!

They're a lot harder to get out once they shear off! especially the small stuff!!

Heat it, its the key to all jobs like this.

DO NOT HEAT IT UP, ive spent the last 12 years watching my engineer friend [who specialises in reclaiming buggered parts,] get people ou t of the shit who have put heat into a high carbon steel anything,
if you do heat it up and atill fail to remove it ,it will invairably go pot hard and you'll be really up shit creek,


do as tom suggests and drill it out from the off..

remember it sheared for a reason, and that reason is its stuck fast,think about it, if you risk trying to turn it this way and that , with no experience you'll snap it again,

drill it out of get someone competent to do so,

carl

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Thanks for all the advice - yeah i know the way the threads go hahaha!!!

Im going to do that, ill cut the top off, and drill it out and get someone to help me put new threads in it. I think they have used some locktite thread glue thats why they are so stuck in, when i finally got the other two studs out you could see some remains of something.

Oh and nic ive remembered to take my distributer drive out this time

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

personally i would weld a nut onit then remove it, ive done that loads of times.

use a old head nut welder on full chat and bobs your uncle.

the heat from the welding will help try that first if all else fails then drill out.

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

the safest way to make a job of it is to grind it flat, them bolt a good housing on with the two remaining bolts ,then use the other hole as a guide for the drill bit to make the centre , then remove housing and drill out a bit a t a time,

ive seen the results of poor attempts too many times not to know the safest way to do it,

carl

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Someone at a time has used a bolt that is too long and has broken into the water cavity and used some kind of thread sealant to seal it as you say. My old 998 had the same probs with the same stud, to stop the water coming up the threads they sealed it and it wouldn't move easily.

Ive never had a thermostat stud break, but when i stripped my turbo nearly all of the studs broke! I just heated them up then got some mole grips on them and had no problems?

Impact and heat has never failed so far with me! But I may just be lucky. Lol

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