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Re: ARRGG! Stupid MGB Head

To: Jeremy DuBois <jer@thlogic.com>
Subject: Re: ARRGG! Stupid MGB Head
From: Matthew Jones <matt@matanza.cc.kcl.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:11:43 +0000 (GMT)
Try Soaking it in a little diesel overnight.  It worked for me.  :)


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Message from:  Matthew Jones
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King's College London
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Jeremy DuBois wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 10:46:59 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jeremy DuBois <jer@thlogic.com>
> To: MG's <mgs@autox.team.net>,
>     British Cars Mailing List <british-cars@autox.team.net>
> Subject: ARRGG! Stupid MGB Head
> 
> 
>   Hi everybody,
> 
>       I've gotten a little frustrated trying to remove the head from my
> MGB engine.  All the manuals told me exactly what the problem was going to
> be, the the head will be stuck onto the studs, but none of the manuals offer
> any useful way to fix the problem.
>       The head is only stuck on one stud, so it's pretty free and I can
> rock it back and forth a bit.  But I can't get that stud to free from the
> head so I can lift the head off.  I've tried banging on the head, prying on
> side of the head, wedging between the head and the block with wood, and
> twisting the stud out by locking two nuts together.  None of that seemed to
> do anything.
> 
>       Anybody have any suggestions?  I was thinking of trying to torch it,
> but I'm afraid of damaging the head by doing that.
> 
>                                       Jeremy DuBois
>                                       Programmer/System Administrator
>                                       Thermalogic Corporation
>                                       '74 MGB, '76 Spit
> 

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