22-03-2019, 06:13 PM
Having recently helped Jon E in a very minor way get his nice Ricardo head on, I'm unfortunately faced with the same problem he started off with, how to remove an HC cylinder head that's been on my Ruby Saloon for several centuries. Have done all the respectable things like soaked all the studs with Plus Gas and applied the supposedly super duper T-Bar extractors in the plug holes and heaved but no movement. I appreciate that I haven't got the hook type devices but I was thinking of strapping something round the T-Bars and hanging them from an engine hoist but I've had enough for today!
Just wondered, as we all want to transmit this interest to the younger members of society, if there is some insanity defying product that is 100% guaranteed to remove heads with relative ease....as this age-old or is it old age problem doesn't seem to go away?! I looked at R's video clip and that head looked as though it had given up the will to stay on a long time before R used his pry-bar or whatever its called. In the Bad Old Days (BODs), age 17-20, I remember being stuck in the middle of nowhere and having to resort to a hammer and chisel, then tyre lever but I'm now grown up, more sensible, head gaskets are much more expensive and value my surfaces more! Would appreciate any help.
Just wondered, as we all want to transmit this interest to the younger members of society, if there is some insanity defying product that is 100% guaranteed to remove heads with relative ease....as this age-old or is it old age problem doesn't seem to go away?! I looked at R's video clip and that head looked as though it had given up the will to stay on a long time before R used his pry-bar or whatever its called. In the Bad Old Days (BODs), age 17-20, I remember being stuck in the middle of nowhere and having to resort to a hammer and chisel, then tyre lever but I'm now grown up, more sensible, head gaskets are much more expensive and value my surfaces more! Would appreciate any help.