Thanks a lot guy's! Good thing it's that easy! Phew...
I cant find the Knead-it stuff on ebay or around here, but that JB-Weld I suggested, is the same stuff I think. I'll do as Viking suggested, and buy some stuff like that. I can get JB Weld from eBay.
Jubilee clips...actually had to google that, to see what it was. Haha, so common thing, and I have never heard the English word for them before!
I have some thin aluminum sheet. I'll do as you suggested Ken. I was thinking about a tube, slide it over and glue between, but it will be easier with a patch and jubilee clips.
I knew this was gonna work, but I was unsure if it could be regarded as a permanent repair. I think I've got the answer to that! If it works on the oil-cooler...! Thanks.
It's clearly important to stock beer in the car, while traveling
A bit OT here, but what's up with the A-modell heads?
During the last month I have taken apart 3 old engines I got last summer. Saved them from cars going to the scrapper. That's 6 heads, and of them only TWO heads had the spark plug threads intact. The rest was fitted with inserts-threads. And only one of those inserts was intact. Of the 6 heads one had a helicoil in the oil-pipe connection. And two heads had very corroded pushrod-tubes.
Typically, none of the heads was fault-free. I have chosen the only pair with good original sparkplug-threads to be fitted with new valves and refurbished valveseats. One head was almost perfect, only broken exhaustmanifold-bolts, I've fixed that. The other head had this tiny hole in the pushrod-tube. Which luckily can be fixed cheap and easy
On one head with a really badly corroded pushrod tube I tried removing the tube, just for fun. It did not work well, and I binned the head(Sparkplug threads molestet by a bad insert)
I also binned one head that was hit by the piston because of a busted big end bearing.(Also spark plug threads gone).
I hope this is not the normal state of used heads, or there will be hard to get good ones in the future
