Monthly Archives: January 2015

Here's a quick guide of how to remove broken off studs or bolts from a cylinder head. The method will usually work on most aluminium or steel castings, although quite often the studs will be hard and difficult to remove. What you'll need: (ideally) a milling machine, although a good sized pillar drill may do [...]

The first job after returning from the Christmas break was a cylinder head from a Land Rover Defender, for a customer based in Oxted. The headgasket had blown between cylinders 2 and 3 due to some corrosion round one of the waterways. On first inspection, it looked like it would probably come out with just [...]