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Pulled the Valve Covers.. FOUND THE PROBLEM *EDIT: stud replaced*
- Thread starter 78Suburban
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Slapperbar
Retired Navy NDT Examiner
Stud's bent dude.
Slapperbar
Retired Navy NDT Examiner
... and not nekkid.
78Suburban
1/2 ton status
If I can get a nut over the stud, I'll put it off and try to get ahold of a threaded stud. #1 intake stud has a small gash in it too, maybe about 1/3 as deep as this stud was. I guess I'll try to cut the top 3 threads off this stud and get it off. If I can't get it off (which I've got a sneaking suspicion that I can't, then I'll just swap on the heads from my old motor. They look waaaay better anyway. The rockers aren't rediculously loose, and the valve covers aren't covered in sludge. I was going to post up asking for part nubmers for head gaskets tonight, so I could order them in the morning, but I'll give it one last try.. but belive me, I tried and tried to chase the stud with a die and to get a nut to thread back on, without any hint of luck 
Explain to me what was wrong with what I said? I think the problem is you try as hard as you can to find any little thing wrong with anything I say
78Suburban
1/2 ton status
I wonder if I can get the half sawwed stud throw in the box with Batman 
If I get my FUBAR'ed stud I drove in, out, I'll lay a golden egg and send it toward Batman's direction 
If I get my FUBAR'ed stud I drove in, out, I'll lay a golden egg and send it toward Batman's direction 
Goodness gracious!!!! You have a known good set of heads. You have the durn thing torn down that far just put the good heads on. A complete set of gaskets (cost less for me than just the head gaskets alone) and you're in like Flynn. Piddle futz with the old heads at your leasiure after you have the truck running again.
Course I'm an idiot so what do I know.
Course I'm an idiot so what do I know.
78Suburban
1/2 ton status
justhorsinaround said:
You make an excellent point sir. I just may get valve job done on my known good heads for good measure. Or I may just buy the head gasket and bolt the Sob's up.......... I'm freakin ready to get her running. I've been screwing with this motor since DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the club.
I remember when I was young (about 17, 18, to 19), and I was beating my head against a wall trying to figure out how to get some of my first vehicles (1968 Suburban C20 and a 1970 SS 396 Chevelle) to work right. So, I know what 78Suburban is going through.
1-ton said:
I don't have to try very hard at all to find things wrong with most of what you say.
You need to study up on #2.
OK, You dislike how it is how I said it, but not technicly what was said. It is hard to convey emotion and intent with the written word. I think when you and me got into an argument one time with each other over something you responded to me, you where guilty of the same exact thing you are accusing me of.
78Suburban
1/2 ton status
anybody else got any ideas on how to get this locktited stud out? I'll give it one last try............ I'm also gonna have to figure out how to tap the head if I do get it off. maybe I can get a wrench on the end of my tap.
I'm also gonna have to figure out how to tap the head if I do get it off. maybe I can get a wrench on the end of my tap.
I am not sure what tool you used to get the first one out, but I would recommend a tool called a "slide hammer".
78Suburban
1/2 ton status
I used a nut and washers and the first one came out like taking candy from a baby.....................................................but this one won't accept a nut, the top two threads are buggered...
my current attack plan is to grind off the top two threads, maybe throw a little heat from a propane torch at it to loosen the locktite, and try to use the same meathod of tightening the bolt against the stack of washers.
my current attack plan is to grind off the top two threads, maybe throw a little heat from a propane torch at it to loosen the locktite, and try to use the same meathod of tightening the bolt against the stack of washers.
Yea, if you could grind the mushroomed part of the stud down to a beveld edge, you should be able to use a tap to recut the threads. Luckily it looks like you used low heat Blue Locktite as opposed high heat Red Locktite, which will lesson the locktite problem factor a little.
Use a file and file the top of the stud to more of a point and that should take care of the stripped threads. The use some heat to heat the head and do the nut and washer idea. I would then go for the screw in stud idea.
78Suburban
1/2 ton status
I did significantly clean up the threads with a file, but still can't get a nut on it.........................and its RED locktite, BTW 
Your right. I thought it was blue because it was in a blue tube. No big deal though, the red stuff cannot stand up to 70 or 80 foot pounds of tourque, when you start pulling it out. Using a hand file to grind down the mushroomed part of a Grade 8 stud is going to be a slow and painfull proccess. A die grinder would make short work of it.
78Suburban
1/2 ton status
I've got a dremel, and I've got a big ol angle grinder with grinding and cutoff wheels... I think I'll try to cover all of the motor in some plastic, or newspaper, to shield the internals from metal dust... and shield the gas around the fuel lines from flying sparks..... where there's a will, there's a way..there's a will here... this stubborn stud has really pissed me off 
bigbadchev84
1/2 ton status
well if you do end up having to switch heads it would be a good time just to check and see if the cam is flat or you have any mushroomed lifters at that time too, it would really suck to get the motor back together and find out the rocker was only part of the problem and that you have to pull it apart again to put a new cam in......good luck it will be worth it in the end, it always feels good taking it out for the first time after busting your ass on stuborn problems
