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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Humidity and other benefits of living on the right coast |
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Tom |
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Jul 13, 08 - 5:45 PM |
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It's become my hobby too, sort of. I just hate to pay mechanics for things I think I might be able to do in my spare time. I've melted a set of stove controls in the process, but I've managed to repair almost everything in the house. I dropped by my old house in Miami about 12 years after I sold it and the owners marveled at how long the old appliances had lasted. I told them that I had repaired most of them so they had a few years left in them. It was my first house and a fixer-upper. I didn't even know I had a sprinkler system until I pressed a button in the garage to find out what it was and geysers erupted all over the yard from the broken sprinkler heads. A half day's work with some replacement parts and I had a pretty good sprinkler system. It worked on a well too - no city water. Being about ten feet above sea level where we were, the well was only about six feet deep.
Now I'm blowtorching, hammering, and marinating the head bolts in PS Blaster. They may budge after I do this for about a week. If not, I may just shear them, lift out the head, and then try to get the bolts out with a vise grips. I did a little more research on the web and find that aluminum heads and steel bolts tend to "anneal" to each other after a few tens of thousands of miles and it takes extreme measures to loosen themup. The way it is going, I may need to buy a reconditioned engine after all. |
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