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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Restoring a star to its former glory (I have no idea what I'm doing)
 
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JoshGuitar
Oct 25, 2005

Pursesnatcher posted:

The main job, however, remains those last six injectors – and the screws holding them in place.

First things first: You get out your power drill, put a 2,5 mm drill bit on the end, and make a hole.



Then, you stick your 2 mm screw extractor on a 3/8" ratchet, and break the extractor clean off inside said hole.



You then get in your daily driver, race over to the place where you bought the drat things, and get a new set. You then ruin one drill bit trying to make a hole through the old extractor, give up, mount your spare 2,5 mm drill bit, and move on to the next screw. You drill a hole in the next screw over...



...and then promptly break a second extractor clean off inside that screw as well.

I've successfully used an EZ-Out exactly one time in my life. Weird thing is it was on an exhaust stud that broke off flush in a big block Chevy cylinder head; just about the last place I expected that to work out.

Pursesnatcher posted:

That yellow gunk dripping off everything is lanolin; I had the whole darn thing coated extensively both underneath and in every conceivable opening.

I've actually never seen somebody undercoat a car with lanolin, but it seems so obvious now. Living in the steel buckle of the rust belt, I'll have to start doing that. Do they use pure lanolin, or something like Fluid Film?

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