Nick a Heli coil will fix your head. It is a job that could be done on your car
but best done off the car. And as always a machine shop probably is better
equiped to do it.
Too bad, good luck.
Larry Hoy, Denver, CO. USA
http://home.cwix.com/~larryhoy@cwix.com
1967 MGB Roadster, Vintage Racer
1969 MGB Roadster, Driver
1970 MGB Roadster, Fixer upper
1987 Jaguar XJ6 VDP, for the wife
"It's not how fast you go, it's how fast you go fast"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Nick Coleman
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 1998 10:42 PM
> To: MG Mailing List
> Subject: Argggg...Stripped Spark Plug (73B)
>
>
> I was using a Color Tune (just got it from Moss) to set the carbs. When I
> screwed the color tune spark plug in, it stripped the threads on the head.
> It must have been out of alignment (obviously) as I started screwing it in
> (the color tune plug is small and hard to line up). And, this is on the new
> Aluminum Head I just installed--Arggggg.
>
> Not sure where to go from here. Thoughts? Is this something that will
> require removing the head and taking it into a machine shop.
>
> Nick (who is very frustrated at the moment)
> 73B
>
>
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