I was doing a D16Y8 manifold swap onto my Turbo D16Z6. At first I had a huge vacuum leak causing a fast hunting idle from 2000-4000rpm, repeating. It was coming from the intake manifold gasket by the dizzy side.

While re-torquing the stud, It snapped with about half the threading still accesible out of the block. So first I tried getting two nuts on there, and usign a wrench to drive them out. This didn't work at all. Secondly I tried JB-welding a single nut on there.

Two or three problems with the JB-weld. One the Qwik-Weld stuff is NOT designed to be as hard as regular JB-weld. It is not equivalnet to regular JB-weld, just faster curing. It is an entirely different product. So that didn't work. JB-Weld proper wasn't curing as hard as I hoped. I think this is a combination of it being a little cold outside, and damp. Maybe the JB-weld didn't cure because of this reason.

So, we ended up welding a nut onto it, and it finally worked. This put an end to about a week and a half of frusteration. I approached the situation delicately, as I didn't want to sacrifice the threads that were on the stud, I wanted to make them work for me, instead of rounding them off with vice-grips, and utting me in a situation where I would have to drill

Here are some pics:


Thanks regime, for coming over to play with high-voltage welding gear in the rain!

-PHiZ

 

good thinking.

 

glad to see you solved the problem. now lets work on breaking something else.

 

i didnt zap my nutz off... it had to be a good day =D
i think i desever a for this

 

hey PhiZ glad everything worked out with tha situation.

and seems like you finally got the hatch to run.