I noticed that all of a sudden my v6 3.0 95 started to growl a little bit too much while driving. My first thought was that the plug I had in my header that I use to stop up the EGR port had come out or lose. (My EGR is gone and I have no regrets) But when i looked the plug in its hole was still there. Once it cooled down I snooped around and found that the entire stud and bolt had sheared off on the bottom side of my header at cylinder # 1. Now I have a nice small but present gap about and 1/8th of an inch where the header should be flush against the cylinder head. I DO NOT have the time patience money or sanity to pull the engine back apart drill it out and start over. That involves a nightmare for me. I am about to relocate to South Carolina. I will have no shop or tools. I just got this thing done. I have taken the power steering pump loose to gain better access but I cant get a drill in there. Is there any option as to a cold welding compound. Something I can fill the gap with? It just makes it sound like a junky truck. Oh and my second question that I have searched for in is in regards to adding lucas oil treatment to my oil. I found some things about it but I couldnt find any definitive answer to if its a good idea or a bad idea.
Thanks

 

I know that they get above 600 degrees so JB weld wont work will it?

 

Nothing will fill the gap in and stay. The expansion and contraction of the header to the head will spit anything you put in there out.

Either pull the headers out and helicoil the hole if the threads are stripped, or pull the headers and put oem exhaust manifolds back on.

Either way, you cant leave it the way it is. It will only get worse and can cause severe problems if you continue to run it this way.

 

i used to carefully weld onto broken studs to build up enough material to get some vice grips on it. Any shop worth its meritt should be able to do this. It will require a welder, lots of penetrating oil and the removal of the header.

 

Let us know what you end up doing!!!

 

seriously? youve been here a year and STILL manage to post in the wrong forum?

lucas oil addative is garbage... ive used it and hated it...

your only other option for the stud is to get a 90* adapter for your drill and go at it that way... or pull the motor down...

 

pull the header off, try to weld a nut on the stud hopefully a tapered nut and then try to wrench it out. Welding a tapered nut on gives you a hole to fill with weld and the heat will probably be enough to get it started