If you read the other thread about my oil problems, you will see that I have...well, oil problems. My engine is out of my car right now. One source of my oil leaking is my valve covers. I have the AFR 185's on my car and the TFS short valve covers. I am using the blue rubber gaskets from Felpro and they leak like crazy because of the small surface area of the AFR's. I bought cork gaskets to replace them with but I dont' want to do that until I get the top right passenger side bolt extracted from the head. It bottomed out and broke and I cant extract it. I bought some new drill bits made for metal and drilled about half-way into the bolt. I stuck the extractor in there and the tip broke off at the bottom when I started drilling it out. Now, since the extractor is made of a strong material, I cant drill through it and I cant get the damn bolt out. This sucks! Does anyone have any ideas? I have JB quick weld on hand. Also, could I get by for the time being with no bolt in that hole? I need to get the engine back in my car as soon as possible. Will it leak?
Broken valve cover bolt in AFR head.
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I can almost guarantee it would leak....trust me this is 10x easier out of the car, use a dab of the JB weld, but first use a cut off wheel on a dremel to grove both pieces in 2 ways (like a phillips head) and either try a screwdriver first with the first slot, if no then stick them together and wait until it dries.
Good luck, Jason
Good luck, Jason
I am assume the heads are on the car? If so it can be difficult but with the proper tooling you can drill out the exactor, then you can keep upping the size and try to get it to back out. Then heli coil that hole, if you go to big you'll run into huge issues.
You need something there or it will eventually leak like a sive. Heat that area up and the alum should expand maybe you can use a small screw driver and back the bolt out. Use a little antiseize on the new bolts and very, very little TQ is needed.
The stock VC gaskets work great usually with the AFR's. If you use the cork be very careful you do not frop any of the metal hole re-enforcements into the motor. I tend to remove them all, and adhere the gasket to the valve cover. You will be able to remove and re-use it over and over again.
Good Luck
You need something there or it will eventually leak like a sive. Heat that area up and the alum should expand maybe you can use a small screw driver and back the bolt out. Use a little antiseize on the new bolts and very, very little TQ is needed.
The stock VC gaskets work great usually with the AFR's. If you use the cork be very careful you do not frop any of the metal hole re-enforcements into the motor. I tend to remove them all, and adhere the gasket to the valve cover. You will be able to remove and re-use it over and over again.
Good Luck
Yes, the heads are on the engine. Its just the tip of the extractor that broke off. Its at the way bottom so basically I am dealing with a really big hole right now. I could glob some JB in there and make a ridge at the top where I could use my dremel to make the required cuts for a screw driver. Before I used the extractor, I used the dremel and made one cut for a flathead because there wasn't enough of the bolt hanging out for 2 cross cuts. The flathead screwdriver just sheared what was left of the bolt right off.
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