Re: [T3] stripped head stud, and accompanying self-pity..

["Bernard Seront" <serontb@wanadoo.fr>]

>> Are you familiar with a tool commonly called an "easy-out"?

>Don't bother! They are only useful when the stud broke off for a 
>reason other than being broken due to too much torque required to 
>wrench it out (or after you have heated a steel/steel part.)

>Using an easy out will most likely leave you with a piece of VERY 
>hard steel buried in the middle of your broken off stud. This makes 
>it almost imposssible to drill out later.

I got exactly that problem with my modern car two month ago : a stud broken in the head, tried an easy out that got broken there too !!! This is very hard steel, impossible to drill out. Result : I had to dismantle the head and bring it to a specialised machine shop, then reinstall everything (including aligment of the timing belt), result : lot's of time, lots of money...(type 3 content: time and money that I won't use on my notch).
Follow Jim's advice. If you ever think of using an easy out on a broken stud, get the head out of the car first and go directly to a machine shop.


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