The answer you don't want to the question you'd rather not ask

[GDPR]

I Don't know how far your dismantling has got, but if you can run the engine up to temperature and then try it might help. (It will still run with a few studs missing!)

Rgds

Dave

You nicking my idea Dave?

[singapore stag]

Disaster has struck! My cunning plan was keep as much of the engine intact as possible, run it up to temp and try to remove the studs with paddocks stud extractor.

Just managed to snap stud number two flush with the head. One is free, three four and five still solid.

I'd say that's it now! Stuffed!

Really really fed up, just got it looking how I wanted and now this.

Sell it as is?, sorn it?, break it? One thing I'm certain of I'm not spending £2500 on a replacement engine.

Gary

MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME !!! ( said in an accent befitting Rangi Ram from It Ain't Half Hot Mum ) is this what I will have to go through when my Cylinder heads need doing? My Stag is coming up to 85,000 miles now. No way will I be able to do this myself.
How much does it cost to have it done? No chance I will be able to afford it anyway......is this the beginning of the end of my Stag ownership I wonder?

Sukh.

[Goldstar]

Wrapping the head puller now Gary.

Seriously that is a bugger but there is still hope as I am sure any who have had this happen to them will testify. I think the technique is to get as many studs out as you can (and all the bolts) raise the heads a few inches, protect the surfaces with something (piece of laminate floor?) then take a (hack)saw to the studs take heads off and get your local engineering company to drill the remains out. I'm going on hearsay from other posts but I think the real answer is 'don't despair' it is salvageable.

Keep going

Paul

[GDPR]

Illegitimi nix carborundum. ...

[Kev43]

Hi Gary,

I am not a a master mechanic by any stretch and I was faced with the same situation as you, I still managed to get the heads off, so all is not lost.
The way I did it was to jack the head off using a side jack braced against some wood on the other side and pushing against the inlet ports on the head. It was far more brutal that I wanted to get but it did the trick.
I could then get a roller type stud extractor on the studs and remove them.

The old adage where there is a will there is a way springs to mind.

Kevin

[singapore stag]

Illegitimi nix carborundum. ...

Illegitimate snow Rats???

[Tonyw]

Disaster has struck! My cunning plan was keep as much of the engine intact as possible, run it up to temp and try to remove the studs with paddocks stud extractor.

Just managed to snap stud number two flush with the head. One is free, three four and five still solid.

I'd say that's it now! Stuffed!

Really really fed up, just got it looking how I wanted and now this.

Sell it as is?, sorn it?, break it? One thing I'm certain of I'm not spending £2500 on a replacement engine.

Gary

Hi Gary,

It took me three weeks to get the heads off mine when I bought it. I managed after a lot of pulling tugging, rope down the bores, to lift the heads with the pistons, but finally I lifted them about 2mm. I them got a hacksaw blade in and cut the remaining studs. The guy I took the heads to got the studs etc out but In my haste to get the reminding studs out of the block I nicked one of the bores. I had this tig welded and decked.

The thing is after all this it didn't cost more than a couple of hundred quid and now I am out on the road it was all worth it!

Don't give up you will manage to get it sorted in the end and enjoy the summer.

Tony

[flying farmer]

I think Goldstars offer of the head puller is the best option now, I have always used the jack between the heads method myself.
Maybe a combination of the two? Should shift virtually anything I think

Neil

[Gresley]

Hi Gary,

I have sent you a PM.

Brian

[GDPR]

I think Goldstars offer of the head puller is the best option now, I have always used the jack between the heads method myself.
Maybe a combination of the two? Should shift virtually anything I think

Neil

Or turn it into two Dolomite engines when the block lets go down the middle. ..

[DJT]

Or turn it into two Dolomite engines when the block lets go down the middle. ..

Only if the original weld is defective

[StagnJag]

You nicking my idea Dave?

I seem to remember telling you that one, although I'm sure you knew already. I certainly didn't get it from you I'm afraid.

Rgds

Dave

[StagnJag]

Illegitimi nix carborundum. ...

I had to look it up - have you been busy on Wikipedia?!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum

[grumpy2]

Bought air hammer/chisel to try precussion method, nothing! At least nothing else snapped but no movement either



Gary

[Another Peter]

Gary

Try contacting Keith Stevenson at Tynwald Triumph 01925 229169 or 07774 258546. He's only in Warrington and may come over to you. At the very least he could offer you some advice.

Being comparatively close, I wish I could offer you some more practical advice or help, but my toolkit consists only of various Meguiars products

Regards

Peter