84 turbo coup progress... continues.

[Mr. Carb]

Sorry, I haven't gotten anymore pictures yet. I got stuck on that 14mm hex sockit coolant plug on the passenger side front of the engine. I Can't get the old one off. I made a hex key tool by grinding down an old impact extention. Took my 2 foot crasftsman breaker bar to it, put a pipe on the end of that, Ended up bending the breakerbar, and Pipe, and the bolt never budged. Took an air power impact wrench to it, still didn't budge. Took a tourch to the engine block, got everything but the plug glowing hot, still wouldn't budge. Gave up. Will try to remove one from a pull apart engine on Sunday morning. Are these things normally that hard to remove? or do they normally crack lose under normal pressure?

[Ross]

They are normally very hard to remove, but sounds like yours is worse than usual.

If you can find a standard hex key (allen wrench), you can beat on the end of them with a BFH as hard as you can - that should get it out. They are rather strong too(good ones, anyway - bondhus seem very good for the price), and will handle a very long pipe extension!

Either that, or find a better quality breaker bar to use.

 

Good luck!

[Mr. Carb]

lol, yeah, I descovered that they're no where near as hard as that sucker was, cracking them loose on any other engine block was fairly easy. I took the same hex key I made to another engine and poped one loose.

 

They are normally very hard to remove, but sounds like yours is worse than usual.

If you can find a standard hex key (allen wrench), you can beat on the end of them with a BFH as hard as you can - that should get it out. They are rather strong too(good ones, anyway - bondhus seem very good for the price), and will handle a very long pipe extension!

Either that, or find a better quality breaker bar to use.

 

Good luck!