busted a oil pressure fitting, now what?

[SPANISH-RICE]

p.s. nice to see ya here elvis haha

[zbrown]

a drill bit would suck...

easiest/best would be weld on the easy-out then use a vice grips to back it out.... more than likely will bring the broken fitting with it......just be careful where you are grounding

just make a little nub on the easy-out you can get ahold of with the vice grip....... works 1000x's better and faster then reverse drill bits for broken off bolts i know that

[XJHEAD]

Get some washers with the hole a little smaller than the brass fitting . Stack them one at a time and try to weld them to the easy out. Build them up high enough until you can get a vise-grip on them.

[SPANISH-RICE]

thats a good idea^

[gsrEK]

weld a nut on and spin er out

[SPANISH-RICE]

gsrEK;233369 wrote:
weld a nut on and spin er out

the obvious choice

[gsrEK]

SPANISH-RICE;233371 wrote:
the obvious choice

next time u break something i wont give u any imput ha

[SPANISH-RICE]

wont need it

[gsrEK]

shut it haha i will still help

[SPANISH-RICE]

ya i bet

[gsrEK]

SPANISH-RICE;233389 wrote:
ya i bet

wow ok

[XJHEAD]

The nut may or may not work. It is harder to get tip down in there for good penetration and without melting the surrounding area. I always use washers, fill them in completely then stacked another one etc. until built up enough for the vise-grips.

[wa2fastcamaro]

I got it last night, I tried welding to the ez out and would not hold, must not have been enough material to weld to. I didn't want to do any drilling and risk metal shavings in the oil passages.

What I ended up doing was using a punch and pounding the ez-out through the fitting till it fell in the block. Then I torched the fitting with the intake off and used another bigger ez-out and backed it out really nice.

Getting the chunk of the old ez-out out was interesting though. I ended up modifying one of those telescoping magnets to fit through the oil sender hold and got the piece out.

I was a happy guy last night, as I got the truck running and my $150 TBI 350 I baught is one hell of a nice motor, looked brand new in the lifter valley.

[SPANISH-RICE]

hell yea good to hear