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rotorwrench · 02-05-2012, 05:46 PM

I remeber seeing a home made set up on the HAMB that was a large rectangular piece of thick plate steel that was drilled to bolt into the four 14MM spark plug bores with specially made bolt adapters. It was then drilled to align with studs in key locations so as to screw jack the assembly and head away from the studs. With enough stud locations covered to keep from doing damage to the deck surface, this would probably work pretty well. If a person put too much pressure in the wrong place it could do some damage on the those really stuck mothers especially in the center of the block where they are usually cracked anyway.

All mine are 8BA with bolts so I've never had much problems with this. Those old aluminum ones could be a real b!tch though.

02-05-2012, 05:46 PM	#10
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 18,010	Re: Head Puller I remeber seeing a home made set up on the HAMB that was a large rectangular piece of thick plate steel that was drilled to bolt into the four 14MM spark plug bores with specially made bolt adapters. It was then drilled to align with studs in key locations so as to screw jack the assembly and head away from the studs. With enough stud locations covered to keep from doing damage to the deck surface, this would probably work pretty well. If a person put too much pressure in the wrong place it could do some damage on the those really stuck mothers especially in the center of the block where they are usually cracked anyway. All mine are 8BA with bolts so I've never had much problems with this. Those old aluminum ones could be a real b!tch though.