I think you are going to stir Jim Stuart from his slumber with this...
Be Cautious of using antisieze on plugs!
Dan Dwelley
On Tue, 23 May 2000 11:42:04 -0600 (MDT), Andrew B. Lundgren wrote:
> Anti-seize is good to use because the metals will bond together, the AL
does not melt. I put in heli-coils in my AL head to strengthen the plug
holes preventing cross threading problems. As a side effect I have now got
stainless steel plug holes that don't have the seize problem on the plugs.
All of the bolts that I run into the head I use anti-seize on.
>
> On Tue, 23 May 2000, Dave Wood wrote:
>
> > I changed the plugs in my daughters Mazda last night before I took it
though
> > the pollution test this morning where it passed I'm happy to say. My
> > question is about the difficulty I had in removing two of the plugs.
I've
> > never had a plug so reluctant to be taken out. Two of them fought me
all
> > the way out. The engine had been run briefly about 3 hours previously
so it
> > was pretty cold by the time I removed the plugs. The most difficult
one had
> > aluminum in the bottom two or three threads. Does the aluminum melt
into
> > the plugs or what? The reason I am so concerned is that I need to
change
> > the plugs in my wife's Olds V6 which is going to be a misery anyway as
I
> > have to disconnect the dog bones and rotate the engine toward the front
in
> > order to remove the plugs on the firewall side. Since it also has
aluminum
> > heads and I know that the plugs have never been changed, am I looking
at the
> > same kind of difficulty to remove those? I understand that it is a
good
> > policy to put anti-seize compound on any bolts that go into aluminum
and I
> > assume this is correct for plugs as well? The only MG content is that
there
> > are aluminum heads available as replacement heads which I assume could
cause
> > the same kind of problem.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Dave 72 B
> >
> >
>
Dan Dwelley
77 Midget
Alexandria, Va.
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