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- My Bike Models
- 1981 GL1100 Innerstate("The Turd")SOLD!!, 1996 GL1500 Innerstate
Imma gunna kick his f :sensored: g a :sensored: s!! :rant:
So...after 10 years, I decided to finally tear into my 'Burban and get it running on all 8 again. I knew it had a bad valve, no surprise there. The surprise was finding two head bolts broken off in the block. :shock: :head bang: Off comes the head, and then the trouble of removing the broken bolts(Both of them go into the water jacket, btw....that will be important later).
I was able to drill down into the first one in about 3 hours Saturday, and get an ease-out into it, and with a little luck, it came out fairly easily. Ya-HOO! One down, one to go. Not.... the other bolt dint want to let a drill go down into it at all. Damn thing made out of Krytonyte or something. :headscratch: Two MORE hours Sat. and 3 hours Sunday, lots of drill bit sharpening, charging batteries for the drill, a few choice words, and more than a few thrown tools later, I gave up. I did have a die grinder, with ONE carbide burr(a broken one at that), and was able to finally get a hole all the way thru the bolt. Got it large enough to see the threads in the block. There was NO punching out the left-over bolt threads...just wasn't gunna happen. A little more die-grinding, and I was able to start a tap down in the hole, and tap new threads. And then.......do I even need to finish this sentence? Got the hole threaded about 1/2 way, backing the tap out, and........ :sensored: :rant: :Awe: :head bang: :rant: :Awe: :head bang: @*$^#&%(%)#(@&$*()@$ :sensored:
Yeah....friggin tap broke off down in the hole. :crying:
My choices to "fix" this are limited. I ordered a new set of tap extractors, but they won't be here till Monday. My plan is to freeze the dang tap(I got a new case of freon at the house anyway), and try to back it out with the extractor. If that don't work, I'm skrewed.....
I have thought aboot just putting the head back on with the one bolt missing, since it had been runing with TWO broken bolts for who knows how long. so it should run otay with just one broken, right? Well...remember the part about them going all the way thru to the water jacket? That means I can't leave it out, or coolant will run right up onto the top side of the head.
The only other option, if the tap extractor doesn't work, is to buy a new short block assy.....which I REALLLY don't wanna do. This engine only has 29,000 miles on it. If it comes to that, I might just sell the dang thing as is, and look for a newer truck.
Friggin Murphy..... :sensored:
So...after 10 years, I decided to finally tear into my 'Burban and get it running on all 8 again. I knew it had a bad valve, no surprise there. The surprise was finding two head bolts broken off in the block. :shock: :head bang: Off comes the head, and then the trouble of removing the broken bolts(Both of them go into the water jacket, btw....that will be important later).
I was able to drill down into the first one in about 3 hours Saturday, and get an ease-out into it, and with a little luck, it came out fairly easily. Ya-HOO! One down, one to go. Not.... the other bolt dint want to let a drill go down into it at all. Damn thing made out of Krytonyte or something. :headscratch: Two MORE hours Sat. and 3 hours Sunday, lots of drill bit sharpening, charging batteries for the drill, a few choice words, and more than a few thrown tools later, I gave up. I did have a die grinder, with ONE carbide burr(a broken one at that), and was able to finally get a hole all the way thru the bolt. Got it large enough to see the threads in the block. There was NO punching out the left-over bolt threads...just wasn't gunna happen. A little more die-grinding, and I was able to start a tap down in the hole, and tap new threads. And then.......do I even need to finish this sentence? Got the hole threaded about 1/2 way, backing the tap out, and........ :sensored: :rant: :Awe: :head bang: :rant: :Awe: :head bang: @*$^#&%(%)#(@&$*()@$ :sensored:
Yeah....friggin tap broke off down in the hole. :crying:
My choices to "fix" this are limited. I ordered a new set of tap extractors, but they won't be here till Monday. My plan is to freeze the dang tap(I got a new case of freon at the house anyway), and try to back it out with the extractor. If that don't work, I'm skrewed.....
I have thought aboot just putting the head back on with the one bolt missing, since it had been runing with TWO broken bolts for who knows how long. so it should run otay with just one broken, right? Well...remember the part about them going all the way thru to the water jacket? That means I can't leave it out, or coolant will run right up onto the top side of the head.
The only other option, if the tap extractor doesn't work, is to buy a new short block assy.....which I REALLLY don't wanna do. This engine only has 29,000 miles on it. If it comes to that, I might just sell the dang thing as is, and look for a newer truck.
Friggin Murphy..... :sensored: