My luck strikes again.

[wolfo68]

Well I was putting on my new head gaskets and I was tightening down the screws to the cylinder base studs. on the front one of the screws broke off around the stud and on the rear one of the studs snapped off within the screw. Neither were even close to factory torque specs.

 

[ali]

Stock head bolts or new head bolts?

 

[mnbuellrider]

Ouch, that seriously sucks. Good luck with that, busted bolts suck. I had to EDM out a busted header bolt over the winter.

 

[wolfo68]

they were the stock ones, I'm ordering new ones now.

 

[onelogue]

Are you sure you had the torque wrench in in/lb not ft/lbs?

 

[wolfo68]

I'm sure, the bolts weren't even all the way tightened down, at the moment I'm sort of purplexed about the whole thing.

 

[garyphantom222]

that sounds like my luck with stuff such as that,even when I try to be as careful as I can.

 

[wolfo68]

anyone know how to get one of these cylinder base studs out?

 

[Hammel13]

If there is still thread left you can try to putting two nuts on it and try backing the stud out. I was able to do it that way on my dads Harley

 

[wolfo68]

there wasn't enough space for two nuts, I wound up buying a stud remover from harbor freight. I didn't update this thread, I started a different one with the answer. other