MONKEYMOUSE
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- May 10, 2001
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:debil: Who else here hates mixing aluminum and steel fasteners? Well, First the bike is a '74 Z50 not that that really should matter but it may. Well, okay First there is a heat shield on either side of the head of the pipe, the two screws closest to the head will not budge for the life of me. There how ever are not recessed and can get vice grips on them. After soaking in some penetration fluid I grabbed some vise grips and got the first screw to turn about a 1/8 of a turn, being extremely careful to not break it. Well, of course with almost no pressure on it at all it broke off clean with the nut thetas welded to the pipe ugh, I should be able to get that out with an easy out. . .I hope. On the opposite side no matter what I do the screw will not budge. The head was already pretty mangled (who ever had this bike before managed to strip just about every nut and bolt on the thing). I tried spraying it down and letting it soak, locked some vise grips down. . .no luck. I then grabbed the torch and was careful to try and only heat the nut welded to the pipe and not the screw, then tried again the thing will not budge for the life of me. Its like it welded its self in place or something :debil:. Now for my second problem, the screws holding the other heat shield are also stuck. The heads are also stripped, and to make it worse they are recessed into the heat shield (and one with an older z50 knows what I mean). I used my dremle and was able to get a decent slot in the head and use a large flat head on it, with no luck. I've tried all I can think of and heating wouldn't work as I can't get to the nut that it is threaded into. I'm lost here and have run out of ideas, what should I do?!