camaroguy26

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having a ton of trouble with the car. had to get new heads so I'm pulling them off and all is well, the bolts are tight as **** but going ok. Then all of a sudden snap. It's the long big bolt on the exhaust side of the #6 cylinder. It was maybe 1/4-1/2" out when it snapped, and only about an inch of it snapped off inside the block, but it's deep in there! Any ideas? I'm thinking I gotta pull the engine and fly back to jersey when my leave is up. Try to fix it when I take leave again. This ******* sucks ***! lol

5_02ls1

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that sucks...it would be really hard to get a drill in there with the engine in the car...
good luck

BigRich954RR

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get some spray lube thats for rusted/stuck parts spray in hole let sit. Get small steel piping or tubing that fits in head bolt hole let it stick up at least a inch from block deck. find a left hand drill bit that fits inside of the tubing inside of bolt hole it has to be a pretty close in size. and slowly drill it out. if not enough room for a drill to fit and drill straight buy a 90 degree chuck that hooks up to a drill. cost about 19 for it last time i bought one.
buy 2 or 3 lenghts of tubing if you have to drill alot and change them out when they start to wear.

ss.slp.ls1

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If it were me, I'd drop the engine in order to better use a drill and extractor to remove the bolt.

camaroguy26

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That's a good idea but will take me some time and looking to find those exact sizes of pipe and drillbit, especially a drill bit long enough to fit down there. It's about 6" down there, the last inch of the bolt snapped off in those threads. But I will keep it in mind if I can't find anything else.

I'm afraid that's what I'll end up doing. I should just start doing it now but want to try to get it out without dropping the engine. Thing is I'm 1000 miles from my base on leave and I have to be back by Monday. Never pulled an engine before and no one is around or has time to dedicate the next few days to help me out so I don't know if I'll make it on time. I'd have a lot of sleepless nights!

I think I may try that JBWeld thing I heard someone say. But if it doesn't work there's 24 hours wasted and I definately wouldn't have time

BigRich954RR

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where in NJ are you

camaroguy26

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well right now I'm on leave in IL, but I'm stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ

Decided to just pull the engine and take it somewhere to get the bolt out. I got it out tonight. But I wasn't thinking right, the garage is so small. I pulled the car straight in, lifted it up by the raftors, pulled the engine out, now I have to get the car pushed out so I can get the engine out of the garage and on a trailer lmao. it's always somethin. I'm tired tho so I will probably just build somethin tomorrow to wheel it around. anyone have pics of a dolly I can duplicate quickly and easily? Preferably something that can be pushed around in gravel fairly easily?

Thanks guys! I just hope I can get this damn thing back in lol. it was a pain to get it out!