Re: Removing cylinder head studs

[bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)]

At 6:34 AM 1/29/03, Kevin Trent wrote:
>I needed to swap the studs for the intake manifold on the cylinder head of
>the 1750 I'm rebuilding order to reinstall the original Spica injection
>intake manifold.  The donor head for the injection studs is "original" -
>they have never been removed.  I cannot get the darn studs out!  Double &
>triple nutting did not help.  To be honest,  my success in double nutting
>over time is about 50%.   Am I missing something?
>
>I finally broke down and used a vice grip and got 3 of four studs out, but
>the last one is still stuck tight and I'm starting to munk up the
>stud.   Any suggestions for removing the stud without destroying it?

Snap-On makes stud colletts.

Greg
>
>thanks,  //KCT, Powell, TN
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