Help asap - disaster!!!

so i'm doing the hockey puck/ silencer mod...finished up, turned it on and saw a geyser coming out from under the hood. i turned if off...went to see what happened. i thought i might have unplugged something...turns out that i either leaned on this or something and it broke. what do i do now? new intake manifold or can this piece be extracted? where does this go exactly? if i just hammer at it to break away all the "pipe" that stuck in there, is there going to be a problem with little fragments going in there? if i remember correct...i think coolant flows away from this orifice so i think i'm ok there.





i need to try to get this thing going before i go in tomorrow night. damn damn damn damn! i think i'll chill on mods for a bit after this one....well after the efan anyways.

try a set of ez outs. or screw extractors, whatever you wanna call them. i'm sure you can get them at sears. worth a shot at least sir.

Damn! This is a common issue hapened on my 6.5 diesel had to carefully cut out the pieces in the threads then rethread it. Auto store should have a tool maybe a better way to do this. I actually went away from that fitting and did a slip style in stainless the aluminum part that's original is junk for that reason! Good luck try to keep it clean those pieces will eventually cycle through your system not a good thing.

so yeah i'm researching it and it seems to happen a lot! damn heater fitting. water flows out of this and it is a high pressure hose so i'm hoping that anything that might falls in will get shot out if i turn on the engine without the hose connected for a few seconds. i'm gonna go attack this thing with a hack saw.

i was gonna suggest a hack saw blade, but didn't know exactly how big the hole was. didn't know if you would be able to get into it with a blade or not. may be able to gently cut it down to the threads and then maybe chase it out with a screwdriver.

What's the hockey puck/silencer mod?

It works just be patient. When you get done squeez one of the larger radiator hose should be enough pressure to flush out the debris.

i bought a extractor tool but i can't get it to budge and i'm afraid that the more i try, the more it's expanding into the threads making it tighter. the hacksaw barely fits in it....i'm gonna have to try more tomorrow. i've read about this happening very often due to a ****** part. i'm definitely not putting the same part in.

blizz said:

i bought a extractor tool but i can't get it to budge and i'm afraid that the more i try, the more it's expanding into the threads making it tighter. the hacksaw barely fits in it....i'm gonna have to try more tomorrow. i've read about this happening very often due to a ****** part. i'm definitely not putting the same part in.

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happened to mine take the manifold off and very carefully take a small chisel and hammer and u can break peice off by peice with out messing up threads if ur careful then i put the stock one back in it the alumin is very brittle easy to chip off and if ur going that far dont foget to buy the intake manifold gasket set

chris are you on 67-72 trucks?? i just had almost the same response to my thread there.