As part of my engine-out got-less-than-a-week-to-complete-it project, I need to tap the bottom of the block (Type 1, Brazilian) to install the thermostat mounting stud.
I was looking at my tapset and it seems that the T-handle is gonna be bumping up against the underside of the head/pushrod covers area. Am I mistaken? This looks messy -- I don't want to pull the head. I'm not real familiar with tools available for doing this kind of work. What might be the tool/technique for doing this?
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Don't use a T handle. I have tapped, laboriously, with an adjustable wrench and the patience of Job. Colin
Yup! There should be enough room for just the tap. And if you drill a nice clean hole, you can carefully get the tap threaded into it straight and nice, little by little, using either an adjustable wrench or some other similar type tool. Maybe a small Vise-Grips (tm), something like that. Even a needle nose pliers, which might actually be better for getting the tap started, while you apply downward pressure on the tap with a finger.
PS: how ya gonna drill the hole? ;-)
John Kuthe...
That's encouraging.
Gulp. That's not encouraging.
Don't use a T handle use a ratchet with a socket to fit your tap....I did and worked great. The force is minimal that you have to use..Eric ...... been there done that
Cool idea.
Been there, done that... :)
Jan
Jesus,it ain't that hard.Ya ain't buildin' a watch! There's a reason why the tap handle slides back and forth.
Okay, okay! My tap handle is about 6'' long and the tap goes right into the center. The only sliding I get is when I don't tighten the handle onto the tap very well, and the handle slides off the tap. Hilarity ensues while I mutter and ask myself how I got into this mess in the first place.
"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott" wrote
I love it when hilarity ensues.
To someone else.
:-)
-- Scott
hehe
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