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Originally Posted by jake12tech
Did they break off in the head or are they seized? If they're seized I will walk you thru getting them out one by one. There's an extractor tool, if that doesn't work comes to worst you pull the head and have a machine shop extract them out. I've drilled out a plug before tho, it's risky
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Broken off flush with the head. I'm plenty comfortable with the mechanical stuff, swapped heads on a 606 before, not a big deal. But drilling free-hand, at an angle, into a 4-valve head I'm not comfortable doing on my own. Maybe if I had some kind of special jig and tooling that made it idiot proof.
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Originally Posted by Father Of Giants
Only problem is there are a lot of special tools to be bought and will take a long time to do.
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I bet I can swap the 606 head in less time than it would take me to successfully drill three plugs out. And with a lot less sweat and frustration. I already have all the special tools required for a 606 head swap. I also don't want the down time associated with pulling my head and waiting on the machine shop. I'd rather just buy a good used head and swap it inside of a weekend. The machine shop can repair my old head at their leisure, and then I can resell it.
Even better would be if the dealer has the idiot-proof jigs and doesn't charge an arm and a leg for the service, I can solve this problem with the stroke of a pen.
Guess I need to call them for an estimate.