I can't win..

Well I get my NEW head in, it looks like it's been sitting in an attic since 1995, like spider webs, and insects are dead in side of it and shit. LOVELY anyway I clean it all up and get everything bolted back up, and one of my bolts on the end of the camshaft holder breaks off. Great. None the less I put my valve cover back on, and I was trying to get one of the rubber parts out under the head of the bolt, with my hand...and it broke off also. Lovely. What f*&king luck. So how the hell do I get those broken bolts out of my shit?

Well at the shop if this happens they just spot weld a piece of metal on and twist it out. Is it drivable? If it is broke off down in there and you can't get it and it is also undrivable you might want to take a piece of metal (anything that will fit down there) and "weld" it on to the broken bolt with some JB weld. Hopefully it will hold tight enough for you to unscrew the bolt.

go to sears, craftsman has a set of broken bolt extracters, drill a hole in the bolt, make sure its centered, insert the exrtacter and twist it out, be careful notto break the extracter off in the bolt though, b/c those pappies are hard let me tell ya.

Jeef is correct once again on the bolt extractor.

yea now I got everything running, for about 10 mins, the the headgasket started leaking...guess 3rd time is a charm...I need to replace it then see what happens.

you used the same head gasket over again?

yea i'm a fuckin tard, i spent like 50 bucks on this awesome 3 layer metal head gasket and I sprayed the shit out of it with copper spray so i thought it might hold up again, but I guess not...i know i'm dumb oh well i'll replace it again tomorrow

man looks like your haing the luck i had with mine after i threw a rod bearing it was all down hill...here it is now car finally running two months later...only pays off in the end in between sucks really bad...i know how you feel man...wish you luck

heh, sucks to be you. Hey I might be able to buy your head afterall, did you ever find out the shipping price?

heh, sucks to be you. Hey I might be able to buy your head afterall, did you ever find out the shipping price?

kinda, but with the hurricane comming nobody is open so I can't ship it untill this whole thing blows over, so we're gonna have to wait untill after that.

hey hey how strong is that bolt extractor from craftsman/sears? I've never had the chance to play with it...


the route i've always taken was drilling and re-tapping the hole with the proper metal fittings/threads. it does hold up very good.

for a little info/ tapped a block (a head bolt got fecked) and everything is fine under boost (1.6/ turbo/ dynoed around 190/stock 7psi spring) the tap held and is holding well.

hey hey how strong is that bolt extractor from craftsman/sears? I've never had the chance to play with it...


the route i've always taken was drilling and re-tapping the hole with the proper metal fittings/threads. it does hold up very good.

for a little info/ tapped a block (a head bolt got fecked) and everything is fine under boost (1.6/ turbo/ dynoed around 190/stock 7psi spring) the tap held and is holding well.


I'll check and see how good it is since I work at sears.

there pretty damn strong, They work quiet well also.

there pretty damn strong, They work quiet well also.
yup they work awesone. same with that stripped screw version. saved my ass many times

sorry to hear about your bad luck man, I'd just buy a new head gasket, and if that didn't work, I'd drive w/that motor until it died or blew up, which would give you time to save up for a new sohc motor to swap in, I know a guy who had a blown head gasket in his EF Hatch and drove it for like 2 months until it died, then swapped a Vtec head on it, and it ran fine

heh thats where his problems originated from... the all condeming mini-me

very true...hehe...i just say go back to stock and leave it at that until you can afford to make it run right

Sheeet I got enuf cash, I already ordered another head, head gasket, and ARP head studs. Just waiting on the stuff to come in and get the beast running again.

me and my buddys dubbed my 88 hatch "The Beast" the night I baught it and it just kinda stuck.