Blending bowls and found a hole!! How to fix?

[LowBuckX]

I was blending my bowls today and one of the head bolt holes protrudes through the bowl and when i hit it it opened up a little more.
What can be done with this? Can i sleeve the bolt hole with a brass tube and epoxy it in or is this normal. It seems the bolt holes are drilled way over sized.

[Travis B]

do you have a picture?

[LowBuckX]

do you have a picture?

you can see it with the brass sleeve inserted for contrasting color. its also been "cleaned up" so the A&B will stick

[derekf]

I'm thinking that the lack of responses would be caused by the lack of folks with first-hand knowledge of the problem.

I've not run into this. I'd think that you'd need to sleeve the head bolt hole with something, lest you end up with a vacuum leak past the head bolt (or at least the possibility of one) - I don't know that brass is the right thing though; what kinds of heat levels would your heads see and how well does brass hold up to those sorts of heat?

Or was it a matter of the head bolt always entering the bowl as cast, and now it's just a bigger hole? In that case, I guess a sleeve wouldn't be required, since it wouldn't ever have been sealed.

[malihoochie]

Yes a brass sleeve is the answer. PM me and I'll get ya helped out.

[OHCbird]

Yeah, you can sleeve it- but I'd sonic check the rest of the head. Who knows where else you might have gone thin on it...

[ProStreet R/T]

It's not that uncommon of a problem to have holes in aluminum heads. As was stated you can sleve the hole, or if it's a water jacket have it welded up. Nothing to worry too much over.

[LowBuckX]

Yes a brass sleeve is the answer. PM me and I'll get ya helped out.

I found that my local Hobby shop has 15/32 thin wall brass tubbing that fits the hole perfect It holds up to soldering and I dont think the intake side gets hotter than that. Also I got some Moroso A&B to add to it.

Yeah, you can sleeve it- but I'd sonic check the rest of the head. Who knows where else you might have gone thin on it...

The thing Is I didnt take much off any where thats why i was suprised when i broke through. But the hole was drilled sort of off. meaning like it was drilled in 2 steps one from the top and one from the bottom and they didnt meet in the center correctly.

[Johnny Blaze]

WHat kind of heads are they?

[LowBuckX]

G1 trickflow twisted wedge.