15-12-2020, 08:49 PM
Decades ago we had a cylinder head stud seize on Dad's '30 Triumph Super 7. It was the center stud in the aluminium Ricardo head. We tried the usual tricks of localised heat, tapping the top of the stud etc, but it was seized solid in the aluminium. Eventually I took an old 18 tooth hacksaw blade & carefully ground all the teeth off except the last one & I used this to 'pick' the asbestos out from between the 2 layers of copper until I had enough clearance to get the other end of the hacksaw blade into the gap & cut that offending stud off.
Thinking about it now... urk... Elfin Safety would have locked my parents up, but I didn't succumb to the asbestos and the stud got drilled out with the head on the drill press. The remaining threaded bit in the block just turned out the head. Not quite so sure I'd tackle that same job with such a cavalier attitude today, but I was about 13 at the time & did it while Dad was at work.
Aye
Greig
Thinking about it now... urk... Elfin Safety would have locked my parents up, but I didn't succumb to the asbestos and the stud got drilled out with the head on the drill press. The remaining threaded bit in the block just turned out the head. Not quite so sure I'd tackle that same job with such a cavalier attitude today, but I was about 13 at the time & did it while Dad was at work.
Aye
Greig