<VV> Stripped out helicoil

[D. Barry Ellison]

Wow, tough luck.  My vote is boat anchor.  Donor engines are cheap enough 
and available.  Too bad.

Where are you?  Local club access?  Surely someone near you has one in 
storage.  Keep yours though - you'll need to transfer a lot of parts.  
Someone might just give you (or sale cheaply) a good case and you can 
transfer 98% of the parts.  You can transfer all the parts, from 
crank/cam/bearings/rods, etc.  Keep everything in sync, same bearings in the 
same location on the crank and rods for instance.  I go so far to keep my 
rocker arms and push rods in the same location every time.  I make wooden 
holders with dowels and holes for holding all the stuff in order.

Barry in SC


>      Well, my head troubles have been narrowed down to three stripped head 
>stud casings and a broken lifter.  Evidently when the head bolts came loose 
>the valve train got sloppy enough to break the lifter.  Everything else 
>appears to be OK.  I finally got the 'turkey baster' off and can see that 
>two of the three stripped threads in the case have a helicoil already in 
>them.  So...  what do you do when the case has already been tapped out and 
>repaired and then pulls through again?  Is there an alternative type of 
>repair in this case, do you just use an over sized helicoil for round 2 or 
>do you just make the case a boat anchor?  Thanks again!
>
>Grant Richardson
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