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needing recommendations on who i should use to drill out 2x snapped flywheel bolts from my engine block/ head/i have no idea..... :deadhorse: and maybe a quick once over to fix/replace anything that needs doing etc. please and thankyou :)
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Is the motor out of the car still?
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Sigh, yes, still gotta get someone to lighten flywheel as well so that's why it's not in :roll:
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surely Jeremy can get them out for you? One the heads are gone, they aren't too hard to get out. I'd offer to get your flywheel lightened on the cheap, but my machinist is out of order for a good 6 weeks.
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luke wrote:Sigh, yes, still gotta get someone to lighten flywheel as well so that's why it's not in :roll:
Justin Neil Engineering in Belfast can get you sorted with flywheel lightning / machninging pretty much anything you can think of

He takes a while but he is the master of one off shitty jobs that nobody wants to go near.

03 329 8518 tell him James sent you, he's pretty cheap too.

I have used him for prettry much everything from diffs & Gearbox's, to shortning shocks and tig welding manifolds
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Flywheel bolts were zinc coated then torqued with Loctite.
Two bolts crumbled in two on removal.
Once the broken bolts are removed, I can carry on prepping the engine for fitting.

The only negative issue is the unknowns of the cam.
Will be approaching Damon for tuning once running again, but it may never be mint without knowing the cam specs.
And Im not pulling the engine down to find out. Ive got too much to do on my projects.
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mint16 wrote:Flywheel bolts were zinc coated then torqued with Loctite.
Two bolts crumbled in two on removal.
Once the broken bolts are removed, I can carry on prepping the engine for fitting.

The only negative issue is the unknowns of the cam.
Will be approaching Damon for tuning once running again, but it may never be mint without knowing the cam specs.
And Im not pulling the engine down to find out. Ive got too much to do on my projects.
just like to throw out the fact that since recieving the car back from warrick to now,,,,,,,,,,realisticly nothing done since would have been possible without brendans help and tolerance, and maybe the slight lack of alcohol, obviously brendans help is the major contributor, and once i can afford it he shall be repaid in due course. repeatedly. i have done so far what i can without him and his knowledge, so plainly very little. but watch this space................... once i lure him back to my garage.................. :popcorn:
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that brendan's a good bugger!! :mrgreen:
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