What you will find here: Intended to display minor modifications to my Westfield SEi, this blog now witnesses the two year rebuild (and more) after a major crash in October 2011. Have fun and feel free to add a comment at the end of any post.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Rust + vibrations = fracture

Only a frew droplets of coolant on the garage floor and a loose waterpump mounting bolt... but when I wanted to tighten it, it showed that the bolt had broken. Since it is the same bolt used to tense the belt, vibrations may have killed it together with some rust inside the block. I had to use an 'easyout', a conical left drill bit, to get the remainings of the bolt out of the block. An M8 Helicoil repair kit did the rest. Always thrilling to bore into the block. Remount with new gasket and stainless bolt.
Cheers.

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