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Re: Stuck head, 77 Midget, the saga continues

To: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>, <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>, <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Stuck head, 77 Midget, the saga continues
From: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:47:06 -0800
Reply-to: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
It is amazing what threats can do! As soon as your car saw you were
seriously going to take a big sledge to it - poof! it stopped stonewalling!

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: William M. Gilroy <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: Stuck head, 77 Midget, the saga continues


>William M. Gilroy wrote:
>>
>> Car:  77 Midget that refuse to come apart easily.
>>
>> The second thing is that damn head is still stuck tight.  I tried
>> to get it off by cranking the engine and that failed.  My next
>> attempt was to put back in the two bolts that held the water pump.
>> I then put a 2x4 under both bolts and then used a floor jack to
>> try to lift the head off.  The only thing that happened was the
>> front wheels came off the ground.  While the car was suspended by
>> the cylinder head I tried applying some directed force with a
>> rubber mallet, but still no luck.  Any ideas on what to try next?
>
>Hurray! My head finally came off, well not mine but the cars.
>This is how it happened.  Last night I left the car jacked up
>by the head and applied PB Blaster around where the head meets
>the block.  This morning I applied more PB Blaster and applied
>more persuasion with my rubber mallet.  The thing was still stuck
>when I left for work.  As I left work I today I decide that I
>needed a larger hammer.  I decide that I would buy an 8lb.
>sledge. I would use a 2x4, the 8lb sledge and get really medieval
>on my stuck head.  Anyway I get home tonight and go into the
>garage with the intend of beating my head back to the stone age,
>and I see it is propped up on the 2x4 that I used to jack the
>car up.  The best I can figure is the head popped loose at the
>same moment that I spent the money to buy the sledge.  I swear
>I heard my car laughing at me for spending money on something I
>no longer needed.  I figure I will keep the sledge, I am sure
>I can use it to scare some other part off my Midget.  Anyway
>my stuck head saga is now over, and I want to thank everybody
>for all their helpful suggestions.  Of course I will have to
>start a new thread on just what I am seeing now that my head is
>off, but that will have to wait until tomorrow, since it is getting
>late and I am running on a 2 year sleep deficit.
>
>
>Many thanks to everyone,
>
>-----
>Bill Gilroy
>wmgilroy@lucent.com
>
>77 Midget - Coming apart one peice at a time
>90/89 Shar Pei
>No cats
>


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