Austarion

We've all seen these before:



The studs on the back of the turbo. About a month or so ago I had to replace these studs as they were not long enough.

Three studs. Easy job I thought.

The first two studs came out fine. The third did not. Why is it always that way? Why is it always the last stud, or the last bolt or the last nut which is a problem?

Anyway.. the third stud was stuck. I know.. I'll get the vice grips onto it. Once I had successfully removed all the thread and created a lovely rounded stud I started to think that perhaps I should try something else.

Should I completely remove the turbo from the engine bay? No way! That would mean the stud would win. I was determined to beat it.

Out came the angle grinder. I grinded two flat edges on the stud to give the vice-grips something to vice-grip onto. The vice-grips put a lovely round edge on my grinded flat edge but the stud didn't move.

So I grinded a larger flat edge.. used clamps to clamp the vice-grips onto the stud. I then proceeded to pick up the mallet. I keep saying a mallet can fix anything.

I gave my weird contraption one almighty hit. YES! The stud rotated about 1mm. Of course now the vice-grips couldn't grip the flat edges as they were at the wrong angle.

Out comes the angle grinder. Two new flat egdes made. Clamped vice-grips installed. Mallet in hand. WHACK!

It moved another millimetre. This continued.... for 4 afternoons!

Couple of hours every afternoon for 4 afternoons!

But Im happy to say that stud has been withdrawn from his home. He now looks like this:



Cookie: 1
Stud: 0

And you'll be happy to know that this post completes my therapy for getting over this horrible life experience.

"Cookie ya big stud, give me a mallet or lose me forever" rofl

rofl i'll forward this thread to teh guys at work - been there, done that :P hehe - usually to complete our therapy we either mush it in the big vice or attack it with the oxy ;)

hehe, had same sorta problem with a head stud when removing head off my engine, we welded a alan key to it and then attached a rather large piece of pipe to that and it was still hard to budge

The loser stud sits on my computer and I laugh at it everytime I walk past.

attach it to some beads and hang it from the rear view mirror :)

Jeez, I thought I was a persistent person sometimes... Not anymore!

Cookie,

I have never been at your computer

hahahhahahhaahahhahahahhaha
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LOL

Cookie has only just discovered there's really nothing like a good stud.

I think there's something in that for all of us - don't you?

rofl LOL rofl LOL rofl

tis mangled a bit

So not re-usable then?

only as a trophy :P i agree with chef, hang it off ya rear view mirror! rofl

hmmm, it'll fly and pierce ur skull in the event of a crash then..

COOKIE 1, STUD 1.. tie

Actually it would be..

Cookie: 1
Stud: 1
Chefman: 0