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Stag head removal tool

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Graeme Oxley

13 Jan 2020, 12:52pm

Wanted to borrow. Theodore R. has to remove the heads off his newly purchased magenta Stag from NSW. He has got most of the studs out. He would like to borrow a Head Removal tool similar to the attached photo. I believe there is a stud removal tool as well. Could someone send me a photo of both tools. I have never removed the heads off a Stag so don't know what these tools look like. A photo would be beneficial and I will send out. My Stag appears to be going well after the heads were removed. The water levels have not moved and the buzzer in the header tank has not gone off.
I have removed the heads from a few Stag engines, and some wanted to come off, some didn't. It is only "get parts off" engines I have trouble with the studs/undoing- because my engine has hex head studs. huge angle iron and two small hydraulic bottle jacks and that moved them enough to break the corrosion, but iffy and have to work one head against the other, the rig below looks far better. Shown are a "roll against and grab" tool (destroys tread/used if thread hassle), and the tool most use (two part, essentially two lock nuts). The last one is the most common. The last head I removed the studs from (engine been sitting in the weather) they were very bad. I used my normal method for most of them. High tensile nuts locked against each other and use a large ring spanner have to reset, but I have always used this AFTER the special tool I got the other REALLY stuck studs off by welding nuts on them and undoing those. Most will just buy the tools anyway. If you do and they don't work........... use two locknuts. flexibility of being able to reset them. Remember, if using a full size ring spanner, you want it on the bottom nut. As slightly displaced when you lock nut them, you can't remove it without "unlocking." Ken H

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