New member - hello all.
I have a 2010 Jeep Wrangler JKU with over 200,000 km.
There was some shoddy repairs by the previous owner that I have been fixing slowly over time.
Decided the small exhaust leak at the rearmost manifold bolt was next. I could feel the stud just below the face of the manifold so I thought I was going to pull it off and have a broken stud to remove.
I don't even know what he tried to do as the piece came off with the manifold - see pic. There wasn't much of anything in the hole itself which was made off center.. He filled it with something that didn't work as the hole in the block is empty, can stick a nail down it, nothing there.
I don't want to tear it down until I try something to repair it, but it has to work properly which to me is years - not months.
I was thinking:
have a welder fill the hole and tap?
put a 2 sided stud in a sleeve and either weld it in, or fill with marine metal or some other product that will hold it in place?
insert of some type?
Thanks for any opinions as I'm sure some of you have been through this.
Located on Vancouver Island in case anyone knows of a mobile machinist or millwright out here.
Thanks
I have a 2010 Jeep Wrangler JKU with over 200,000 km.
There was some shoddy repairs by the previous owner that I have been fixing slowly over time.
Decided the small exhaust leak at the rearmost manifold bolt was next. I could feel the stud just below the face of the manifold so I thought I was going to pull it off and have a broken stud to remove.
I don't even know what he tried to do as the piece came off with the manifold - see pic. There wasn't much of anything in the hole itself which was made off center.. He filled it with something that didn't work as the hole in the block is empty, can stick a nail down it, nothing there.
I don't want to tear it down until I try something to repair it, but it has to work properly which to me is years - not months.
I was thinking:
have a welder fill the hole and tap?
put a 2 sided stud in a sleeve and either weld it in, or fill with marine metal or some other product that will hold it in place?
insert of some type?
Thanks for any opinions as I'm sure some of you have been through this.
Located on Vancouver Island in case anyone knows of a mobile machinist or millwright out here.
Thanks