Monday, August 13, 2012

Not Out of the Woods Yet

I was looking forward to coming home from work and pulling off the other head - the driver side - so the head gasket replacement could get started.  But first, it was necessary to stop by Sears to pick up a 12-point 14 millimeter socket for the 1/2-inch drive because it was my intent to use the impact wrench to loosen 'em up so I wouldn't have any trouble like the other one gave.

Got home and tried loosening 'em up with the impact wrench, but they didn't even move, so I dropped back to the manual socket wrench with the breaker bar.  With that, five of the six bolts loosened right up.  Surprisingly.

Unsurprisingly, one of them snapped.

Unhappily, it snapped inside the engine block.

Meaning that now it will be necessary to somehow get a screw extractor down inside the engine block to get it out.

Oh, well, five out of six isn't bad.

Is it?


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