Just My Luck.....

[Jamiep]

Set off to meet the wife for lunch today and the hood ran really lumpy for a while, when warm it felt down on power and the battery light flickered a few times. Just as I pulled into my street there was a rattle that sounded like the exhaust heat shield was falling off.

 

Had a quick look and spotted the alternator bracket hanging off and black soot around it, first thought was oh, the nuts come off......and yes it had, taking the exhaust manifold stud with it flush to the engine block!

 

After kicking things round the garage and a small amount of swearing I decided to try and drill it out and extract the stud.....It worked only had about 20 deg angle due to the size of drill etc but took it slow and started to unscrew with stud extractor, I think doing it while the engine was still hot helped although I did burn my hand in the excitement reaching in to pick the stud up

 

Think I'll go buy a lottery ticket

[Peter Bell]

Is your wife still waiting for you to turn up for lunch Jamie?

[Jamiep]

oops knew there was something i had forgotten.