What would you do?

[dietz4ibanez]

So over the weekend I pulled the motor in the malibu and yesterday picked up an engine with 87k which I thought was pretty good since the car has 121k on it. Got everything switched over from the old engine to the new, lastly, I installed the exhaust manifold and on the very last bolt I discovered that someone broke off a stud. At this point I shouldn't have to spend time dickering with someone else's mistake over a $800 engine. I do believe that someone has tried to drill it out before and off center so I'm not having any luck getting this thing out or drilled out for that matter.

I'm on the fence here, I want to say, efff this and just throw it all together and put it in the car. This may or may not pan out very well.

The other side of the fence has me taking off all my parts and taking it back to the salvage yard and have them fix it or take it back and I'll be on another long search for yet another engine.


I could have this engine in the car right now and if I knew that I could put it on there leaving out the one bolt and there wont be an issue than I'd do just that. I am just trying to avoid putting the engine in and having to take it back out, again...

Here's a photo of the engine. (bottom right screw hole is messed up)

What would you do?
@Draenor @Bigredmariner @PenguinLTZ

 

[PenguinLTZ]

So over the weekend I pulled the motor in the malibu and yesterday picked up an engine with 87k which I thought was pretty good since the car has 121k on it. Got everything switched over from the old engine to the new, lastly, I installed the exhaust manifold and on the very last bolt I discovered that someone broke off a stud. At this point I shouldn't have to spend time dickering with someone else's mistake over a $800 engine. I do believe that someone has tried to drill it out before and off center so I'm not having any luck getting this thing out or drilled out for that matter.

I'm on the fence here, I want to say, efff this and just throw it all together and put it in the car. This may or may not pan out very well.

The other side of the fence has me taking off all my parts and taking it back to the salvage yard and have them fix it or take it back and I'll be on another long search for yet another engine.


I could have this engine in the car right now and if I knew that I could put it on there leaving out the one bolt and there wont be an issue than I'd do just that. I am just trying to avoid putting the engine in and having to take it back out, again...

Here's a photo of the engine. (bottom right screw hole is messed up)




What would you do?
@Draenor @Bigredmariner @PenguinLTZ

I can't see it very well but the option when they are NOT drilled all the fucking way through, or below the head surface are to weld a nut on, or grind with a carbide burr and re-center the drill bit. You look screwed. I have successfully welded a nut on with a piece of drill bit in the hole, but it cannot be so off center that the hole is in the threads. Typically you get it red hot while welding, come back after it cools, and it spins right out

Takes a shit load of patience, Padawan

 

[daddy]

JB Weld it.

 

[dietz4ibanez]

JB Weld it.

Install the exhaust manifold and fill in the hole with JB weld?

 

[PenguinLTZ]

Do not run that without a bolt

 

[Bigredmariner]

Clean it up, use a new sharpening stone to "stone" the surface of the manifold to a true surface. Put a very light film of high temp silicone on the surfaces and button it up without the stud.

Try to re-center the drill hole. Use a small bit and try to get it centered up, step that bit up gradually but not into the head material. Maybe then you can use an ease out to get the stud out.

Or with it slightly off center, drill it and install a heli coil.


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[daddy]

JB Weld it.

Install the exhaust manifold and fill in the hole with JB weld?

I was kidding. You thought about it though, didn't you?

 

[mr_bots]

When the hell did you get a Malibu and how did you kill it?

 

[txab]

Get a lawyer

 

[dietz4ibanez]

JB Weld it.

Install the exhaust manifold and fill in the hole with JB weld?

I was kidding. You thought about it though, didn't you?

*secretly* is out in the garage scraping off JBweld...