F'd up my camshaft install

[95pro]

fack, one of my bolts for the caps broke inside of the head. getting that stud out is going to be bitch. time to drill, hopefully when i get around to removing it, i don't **** up any thing else.

third pic is a comparison of cams. left is intake cam, right is exh-intake cam.

[95pro]

pics of the lifters. btw, the exh-intake camshaft swap is possible only on engines with hydraulic lifters.

[Project Protoge]

Don't drill if you can help it. usually if you break a bolt like that by over tightening it will still unscrew easily if you can somehow get a hold of it with something.

[Prototender]

its not hard to get those out, just get a kit from home depot, or a reverse thread drill bit, go low speeds.

[95pro]

proto,
it's in the works. i know exactly what to do, the whole reverse thread deal.

those bolts don't have to be torqued down that much. so it should come out easily(knock on wood).

[FE3-323]

did you break it off putting it in, or taking it out?
guessing from the stress on the end of the bolt id say putting it in?

[95pro]

bpt323, i was putting it in. it only requires aprox. 100 inch pounds of torque. not foot pounds. keyword: ONLY

doing the math, converting to foot pounds it was only about 8 foot pounds.

those #'s i'm pulling off the top of my head. i'm at work. i'll take a look at the fsm and get the exact numbers.

[Project Protoge]

I actually ment getting a hold of it with a small pair of pliers if it broke of right at the surface or a small flathead screwdriver if it broke off in the hole, their is usually a peice in the middle that reaches off to the side of the bole that sticks up a little and you can get a scredriver to turn it.

[95pro]

if it went that way, i'd have it out already.

have you looked at the size of of that hole?-referring to the plier idea. it's just not possible.

[FE3-323]

Well its a range of 7-11 ftlbs or 14-19nm if memory serves correct.

If you can cut or indent a groove for a screwdriver perhaps you could turn it out.

[Intruder]

I was sitting here wondering how I got so lucky and didn't break a single one of those and then it hit me - I cleaned the threads with a tap!

[ttrudgeon]

Dude that sucks. Shouldn't be too hard to get out though. Just sucks that it's down that far.

I had a bolt snap on me when I was changing my brakes. I used that little hole on the rotor that you can screw a bolt into to pop the rotor off and ... snap. The bolt broke in half. But I was able to get a pair of pliers on the end and turn it out easily.

[95pro]

intruder, of course i cleaned the threads. just bad luck i guess. i did the conversion from inch pounds to foot pounds correctly.

like they say, **** happens.

[Prototender]

lmfao, HAH i didn't do any conversions and just got so wrapped up in putting it all back together that I figured it was ftlbs and twisted the top off of three different ones before I went back and reread it.

[Intruder]

intruder, of course i cleaned the threads. just bad luck i guess. i did the conversion from inch pounds to foot pounds correctly.

like they say, **** happens.

****. I guess it does happen.

Now that I think about it I must be blessed. I reinstalled the cams numerous times when setting the lash.