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oh one more thing i hate trying to use visegrips for any stud just make a lot more work for your self, never seize on any bolts going back in if some threads look a little white and chalky buy or borrow the tap and just clean them up air blow , I am a firm believer in the copper based never...
just to introduce my self a fella from canada
Have been a marine technician for the last 35 years and millwright machinest semi retired as i call it as now i get all kinds of my past customers coming to my house and shop , i did not advertise it but word of mouth travels fast lol
and from my...
mercury casts an alloy in all there aluminum blocks so this problem never happens as aluminum corrodes and seizes any bolt so you were lucky to have only one broken - the best way for a pro repair, grind the top of the stud (broken bolt) so its pretty flat, center punch the center , using a...
