Re: [Amc-list] 69 amc V WHAT??!!

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Yeah, wondered about that too, but then figured maybe the 80 got some bastid head with studs.
Maybe th ethreads pulled and that's why the bid bill.
I'd just either use a thread insert or if that won't hold then I'd go oversize. Should be someway to get it running again with spending a $1000!

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Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jim Blair <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I have thought about what he said with the rocker stud, then realized the 6 has 
> the pairs of rockers, so it's probably a broken rocker or the bolt on one side 
> of the front pair has stripped. (I wasn't too awake when I looked at it. Last of 
> the tin cover motors!)
> 
> 
> From: Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] 69 amc V WHAT??!!
> To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." 
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>  
> $1,000?
> Geez, you can get by with bearing loctite a new stud and a can of lacquer 
> thinner or equivelant!
> Clean the hole, dry it, coat the new stud with bearing loctite and hammer it in!
>  
>    I've not done, it but had a friend who ran a high lift solid lifter cam in an 
> old SBF with pressed studs, every now and again one would pop out. He'd do that 
> trick and put it back together, as near as I know the loctited studs stayed in. 
> Just let them set overnite for the loctite to harden. Too much loctite will 
> hydrolock themess, maybe he filed a vertical slot on the stud to let it ooze 
> back up out, I can't remember, too many years ago.
>  
>   YMMV.
>  
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