Crinan12

I wouldn't waste time with a stud extractor. If it's so badly rusted the head has sheared off a stud extractor won't work, that's not...

Are you sure you really are "asking for a friend"......

It's going to be the standard procedure then. carefully centre punch the face of the remaining stud, soak for a day or two with whatever...

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That would be the bolt shearing. I doubt it moved at all.

I think mine has broken pretty flush with the heat exchanger so nothing to grip on to unfortunately

Thanks. Yeah ill have a bash at taking the heat exchanger off. Just when I thought I didn't really have any jobs to do this winter as...

Not possible as the exhaust bolt goes directly into the heat exchanger into a blind hole.

No reason why not

Looks to be snapped off flush unfortunately. Can you drill through and use a nut and bolt, if there is room on the manifold side?

The removal is fairly straight forward, also gives you the opportunity to clean the tube stack which will be caked up, give it a soak in...

Thanks- yeah I think I'll remove the whole heat exchanger and take it home and sort it. Hopefully i can remove the heat exchanger...

At least before trying to remove any more bolts soak with Plusgas or other proprietary release fluid. This will give you a better chance...

The engine should be ok to use short term as long as the 3 remaining bolts are tight. The exhaust is bolted to the heat exchanger, it...

Hi, I just snapped the head off an exhaust bolt on my beta engine. I actually felt it snapped off quite easily. The bolt moved a bit...