Any ideas on a stuck head dowel pin?
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Im installing new head gaskets in my car and removed the dowel pins to clean the surface, one pin will not come out. I've put vise grips on it and it will turn but it wont come out. I dont want to put any upward force on it. Im scared to mess up the deck surface.
I got the surface clean around it, but now it has to be replaced because its burred up, the other possibility is to clean the burs off with a dremel but the the pin will be smalled. Will this cause an issue?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Austin
I got the surface clean around it, but now it has to be replaced because its burred up, the other possibility is to clean the burs off with a dremel but the the pin will be smalled. Will this cause an issue?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Austin
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I would just leave it alone and clean around it.
No need to over complicate things, it wont hurt anything to leave it. Why risk possibly marring or scratching the head surface?
No need to over complicate things, it wont hurt anything to leave it. Why risk possibly marring or scratching the head surface?
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The dowel pin had too many burs on it to even fit the gasket over. I ended up clamping it with vise grips with a slide hammer attachment. Worked like a charm. Hopefully I can get this thing together this week for the final track day this weekend.
Thanks for the ideas guys
Thanks for the ideas guys
#12
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I know I'm bringing this back from the dead. Did you guys heat the pin itself, around the pin or both? I tried the area around the pin and just ended up grinding into the pin with my channellocks but couldn't get it to turn or move. Now it's kind of deformed and I can't even get the head gasket over it.
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I know I'm bringing this back from the dead. Did you guys heat the pin itself, around the pin or both? I tried the area around the pin and just ended up grinding into the pin with my channellocks but couldn't get it to turn or move. Now it's kind of deformed and I can't even get the head gasket over it.
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So I ended up getting 3 of them out with some ice packs and vice grips. The 4th I crushed with the grips. I tried getting a stud remover on it but that didn't work as it was so crushed already. I ended up having to drill it out. No fun.