Engineer needed

[waynedear]

I have a motorbike cylinder head that a previous owner has tried to remove a couple of exhaust studs, kinda butchered them, one he/she has slipped with a drill and taken a chunk out of the alloy, the other he/she has snapped it off, at least they did not try and drill that one...

I have removed the head and now need to find an engineer to try and rectify the problem; ie, get the studs out with as little damage as poss.
As close to Liverpool as possible, anyone know anyone....

[buggalugs]

I'm not sure location wise, but this chap is worth a bell -

http://www.tomdyke.co.uk/

[kirsty-s2k]

buggalugs said:

I'm not sure location wise, but this chap is worth a bell -

http://www.tomdyke.co.uk/

Seconded, he's a good guy!

[sanguinary]

Yup, one of his fan club members too. Give him a call, I'm sure he'll be able to help.

[AndrewW-G]

OP, you could also try the Head Shop in Warrington, who do decent quality work.

[sider]

What about the Customs bike shop in Golborne Wayne?

Very local and if he can't he'll probably know somone who can.

Same yard as PB Tyres.

[Special K]

AndrewW-G said:

OP, you could also try the Head Shop in Warrington, who do decent quality work.

Seconded, also local to you and wont charge the earth.

[MC Bodge]

waynedear said:

I have a motorbike cylinder head that a previous owner has tried to remove a couple of exhaust studs, kinda butchered them, one he/she has slipped with a drill and taken a chunk out of the alloy, the other he/she has snapped it off, at least they did not try and drill that one...

I have removed the head and now need to find an engineer to try and rectify the problem; ie, get the studs out with as little damage as poss.
As close to Liverpool as possible, anyone know anyone....

Did you manage to get the work done?

I had similar issues last year with a couple of exhaust studs. Having tried every type of extractor, propane, oxy-acetylene, etc. The head was set to a local workshop (in Stretford, nr Manchester) to be heli-coiled. Removing & re-fitting the head was knuckle-shredding -If I do it a again, I'll be removing the engine from the frame first, but the bike now has a Fender Extenda and copper slip on the studs and I'll hopefully never need to replace the stainless headers anyway.

Edited by MC Bodge on Sunday 1st April 22:21