Dug into my coolant leak tonight. Discovered it was leaking out from between the two halves of the waterhouse.
When Bull & I were getting the rig started for the first time the thermostat was stuck. I whacked the waterhouse with a hammer and cracked the lower part. Oops. So Bull put another on that he had lying around (from a 73 I think). It leaks.
So I set about taking the top half off and putting a new gasket in.
Of course both bolts broke off right away. Sigh.
So now the lower part needed to come off. Fortunately those bolts didn't break (they were just put on).
I got one of the broken studs out with vice grips, but the other just broke again.
Easy-out to the rescue? No. I actually saw Bull use an easy-out successfully once. But for me I'm like 0 for 5. I keep breaking them. Now I've got a broken bolt with a broken easy-out in it. Frack.
Well, I didn't like the fact that we had to leave the temperature sensors disconnected with this housing (it's from a 73 and this is a 78 and still has smog gear), so I'm going to give up on this housing and source a proper one. PM already sent to cdan.
No driving the rig until I fix this... Sigh.