Fastener Removal Success!!

[Bingster]

I finally removed the heater hose fitting on the rear of the engine block removed. Know how? With a heat gun.  Maybe I was lucky, but I followed your directions to the letter with the exception of a torch. Didn't have one. Anyway, it's off. However . . .

The new valve that I bought is smaller, and it doesn't seem to thread in right. I barely screwed it in because I may want to take it back. And, the inside diameter is less on the new valve, which could have an effect on water flow.  Guess maybe I got the wrong valve.

 

[desoto1939]

it is a tapered thread and this is the correct newer style shutoff valve. The first question is doest it thread into the hle in the back of the head but some antisieze onthe threads and slowly thread it into the hole.

 

Rich Hartung

[Don Coatney]

14 minutes ago, Bingster said:

I finally removed the heater hose fitting on the rear of the engine block removed. Know how? With a heat gun.  Maybe I was lucky, but I followed your directions to the letter with the exception of a torch. Didn't have one. Anyway, it's off. However . . .

The new valve that I bought is smaller, and it doesn't seem to thread in right. I barely screwed it in because I may want to take it back. And, the inside diameter is less on the new valve, which could have an effect on water flow.  Guess maybe I got the wrong valve.

 

Glad you got it removed but why a new thread? Now anyone doing a forum search that finds your original thread will not know what the resolution was. Suggest you ask a moderator to combine the threads.

[Bingster]

Thanks Rich.  Forget the PM I sent you. I got mixed up. 

I assume the threads on the by-pass elbow are the same as the head heater petcock. I gave the auto parts the thread size and told them it was a tapered pipe thread like my parts book said.