Soooooo let me explain what happened here. I have very little play money right now. I also have this issue where I don't like stay out of the garage despite all the cars being pretty good. Facebook marketplace is going to give me an aneurysm, but I'm very tired of this cast iron anxiety package taking up space in the garage.
Instead of just throwing it in the trash where it belongs, I decided to take out my boredom on it. It feels too wasteful to scrap or give away, so welcome to another one of my projects. ? Just what I needed! This one will be super casual though. If I ever get this thing running it will be with summit cart fillers and things I find for prices too good to pass up. Don't get your hopes up. lol
Anyway, the headache!
Big yikes
Normal people would see this, turn around, and rethink the idea of touching anything. I tried something else.
Oops.
I wish I had pictures of the next steps. oops
I threw another nut on there, turned the gas on this time, and filled the whole top of the broken bolt with a weld pool. Keep in mind, that you aren't going to get anything to stick to the easy-out so I had to get up super close to the edge. Luckily, this cast iron doesn't really take to welds either.
I broke the nut off again, and broke out the center punch. This time I was going to drill into the weld until I got down to the easy out again. Sweet. Now I'm back to where I started except I have a nice guide. Here's the kicker.
I broke out a punch the same size as the hole which is just slightly smaller than the easy out and beat the hell out of it with a 5lb hammer.
The easy-out disintegrates, and I now have a good cylinder head core.
Siiick. Now to go to the disaster on the other head. Four out of seven bolts broke. Thankfully it looks like it's only bolts and no bits or easy-outs.
This one was not protruding far enough to do much with. Drilling worked though.
Then there was this long boi. It looks like the head just snapped off but damn was it rusty! I ran a thread die all the way down so that nuts could be spun on and jammed together. With some PB and a lot of careful wiggling, this finally broke free.
I don't know if anybody cares, but I'm feeling pretty proud to have successfully removed a broken easy out, from a broken bolt, from a 45 year-old cast iron cylinder head in under an hour. I know this is probably a lot of dumb luck too though, so don't get discouraged if this doesn't work for you. I just figured I'd spread the word.
I'm also feeling like a real life Hank Hill. I could have just drank my beer and watched the storm in peace. Instead I extracted rusty bolts from an engine I hardly care about.
O
Instead of just throwing it in the trash where it belongs, I decided to take out my boredom on it. It feels too wasteful to scrap or give away, so welcome to another one of my projects. ? Just what I needed! This one will be super casual though. If I ever get this thing running it will be with summit cart fillers and things I find for prices too good to pass up. Don't get your hopes up. lol
Anyway, the headache!
Big yikes
Normal people would see this, turn around, and rethink the idea of touching anything. I tried something else.
Oops.
I wish I had pictures of the next steps. oops
I threw another nut on there, turned the gas on this time
, and filled the whole top of the broken bolt with a weld pool. Keep in mind, that you aren't going to get anything to stick to the easy-out so I had to get up super close to the edge. Luckily, this cast iron doesn't really take to welds either.I broke the nut off again, and broke out the center punch. This time I was going to drill into the weld until I got down to the easy out again. Sweet. Now I'm back to where I started except I have a nice guide. Here's the kicker.
I broke out a punch the same size as the hole which is just slightly smaller than the easy out and beat the hell out of it with a 5lb hammer.The easy-out disintegrates, and I now have a good cylinder head core.
Siiick. Now to go to the disaster on the other head. Four out of seven bolts broke. Thankfully it looks like it's only bolts and no bits or easy-outs.
This one was not protruding far enough to do much with. Drilling worked though.
Then there was this long boi. It looks like the head just snapped off but damn was it rusty! I ran a thread die all the way down so that nuts could be spun on and jammed together. With some PB and a lot of careful wiggling, this finally broke free.
I don't know if anybody cares, but I'm feeling pretty proud to have successfully removed a broken easy out, from a broken bolt, from a 45 year-old cast iron cylinder head in under an hour. I know this is probably a lot of dumb luck too though, so don't get discouraged if this doesn't work for you. I just figured I'd spread the word.
I'm also feeling like a real life Hank Hill. I could have just drank my beer and watched the storm in peace. Instead I extracted rusty bolts from an engine I hardly care about.
O
