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Ls1howto torque specs must be wrong, it said 15ftibs, I set the torque wrench to that it never clicked and now its broke off into my head, I'm just going to buy a new coolant sensor and swap it to the passanger side head, but do you think the broke sensor will be a good enough seal and won't leak? Man this sucks.

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The metal part snapped off thought there's nothing to grab on to

Cwarta

iTrader: (12)

You can try and leave it, or you can drill it out and take it out with an easyh out. Not many other options.....

chopperman69

iTrader: (-1)

Time for a new set of AFR's...

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I really don't know what to do...

wav3form

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Yikes... I would have just hand snugged it... brass is unforgiving. I would bet that 10 ft/lb would have be more than enough.

Take it to a mechanic, they can get that out for you no problem.

mjs1012

iTrader: (36)

thats weird...i torqued mine to that

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That's the bad part lol, iv been a technician for a year and even I am not sure how I'm going to go about fixing this. I thought maybe some one else had done this already. Im just going to leave it there put a new sensor in the passanger head, solder some wire to it, and find the pin in the pcm and re pin it there. Man this sucks.

FL Junkie

iTrader: (23)

damn and i thought i had it bad when i accidentally broke the plastic connector part of mine off the other day.

southpaw0314

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i had the same thing happen, we ended up using an easy out and it worked.

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I'm scared to drill into it to be honest, I have no idea how deep I need to go.

FL Junkie

iTrader: (23)

you could start the motor up and let it get a little hot then take a chisel or something and try to move the brass piece out. aluminum expands a lot faster than the brass i believe. just be careful.

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Knowing my luck a piece if metal would fall in the coolant passage.

wav3form

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I use easy outs all the time at work and you don't have to drill that far... just enough for the easy out to get a nice solid bite.

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What size easy out are you guys using?

1987earthquake

iTrader: (9)

Get a reverse drill bit it will turn it out before u go through it. Do it slow so it can grab

Bramlok

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If you're afraid to do it, pull the head and take it to a machine shop. They can get it out no problem. Whenever I put those back in, I just add a little pipe thread putty to the threads and tighten it just snug by hand.

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I'm not pulling the head! No way lol. Just got done putting arp head studs in lol I don't feel like doing that all over again. I'm just going to leave it and move it to the passanger head. I might try taking a chissel and seeing if I can get a bite on it and back it out with a hammer by hitting down. If that works il be so happy, but iv already cut the connector off and soldered some wire to it. I can always just cut it back though and put it back where it was if that happens to work.

Gray86hatch

iTrader: (83)

Drill and eazyout should take about 15 min.

You are overthinking this it is basic stuff

Tim

86lxnotch

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like was said, drill and easy out and itll take you half hour max since your scared lol. not hard at all