Re: still learning

[trnsfrma@ix.netcom.com (Shawn C. Meze)]

At 06:04 PM 5/26/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm almost an adult now, 25, and I figured I'd pretty much learned all
>lot of things in the world, that was till I tried to take off my intake
>manifold today.  Man, I learned so many new swear words!  Some entirely
>new, some just concatenations of others I'd long used before combined
>with some very colorful adjectives and nouns(mostly jungle animals). 
>So, aside from increasing my vocabulary I also managed to strip one of
>the allen bolts attaching the intake manifold, I think there's only
>four.  There's always  one stubborn one in there to mess up the whole
>operation.  What can I do?  I had the thought of some JBweld and an
>allen wrench I'm not emotionally attatched to.  Has this happened to
>anyone out there?  What do I do?


Since the allen bold is stripped and will need to be replaced anyways, just 
drill out the head of the bolt. Get a drill bit that is just a hair larger 
than the threaded size of the bolt and drill into the head of the bolt 
until you've gotten far enough to simply remove the head. Then the manifold 
will come off, allowing you to get a set of vice grips on the remaining 
portion of the bolt. Should come our really easy. Be patient! 

Otherwise, can you get vice grips on the bolt? (I dont know which bolt on 
the manifold that has stripped on you.)

The third oprion is a chissel....... ew!

HTH!


Shawn
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