 Yeah everyone, Shave Bear 1000 here. You might remember we just put a head on here and this bottom hole stripped out. I got this little kit here and I'll show you a little bit more about that. We're going to try to use this kit to fix this the threads in that spur plug hole. So let me grab a couple wrenches and let's get started on it. Okay so let me get you guys in here a little bit. Maybe you can sit a little bit better now. I'm going to be working. I may have to move you but see that? That just slides almost all the way in on its own. You get your side angle here. So I just shouldn't do that. See this one? Oh this one's not the greatest but there you go. This one screws right in. And with this bottom one, see it? You can just pull it right out. Okay so what I've got here, let me back you out again and I'll show you this kit that I bought online. Now this is what the kit is. You get this little, this is not for cast iron heads guys. This is only for aluminum heads. Yes you can use it on cars with aluminum heads. Anything with an aluminum head that takes this size, it's a 14 millimeter thread size inside. So just like that. Now see how far out that or how far down in that is? That's going to be like that because if we go farther, of course it's going to be farther out. Okay so now what we're going to do is we're going to take this this reamer tool here and what this does is it cuts threads for this to screw into and then we're going to put a little bit of Loctite on these threads here and then we're going to screw it on in there. Okay now you're going to want to check your the depth of your you know how deep you want to go which this this I already know is the right size but just check how deep you're going to go there. Now with this on here I won't have to turn this. I can feel the the piston. You're going to want the piston down you know all the way back for this to go in. Now we're going to put some oil or grease or something on here that way as it's cutting the threads it should catch most 95% of the the cuttings. It should catch on here and bring them out. We'll get that here in a minute but any there may be one or two little shavings in there. Now it's not going to hurt this because the rings are steel and the cylinder walls are steel so a little tiny piece of aluminum should blow out pretty quickly. I will also blow it out with compressed air but that's how this is going to work now. Like I said I don't know if I'll be able to just forget you get you a better shot down here without my hand being in the way. So this is just going to you're just going to start screwing it in there and try to keep it straight. Now these are at an angle out this way so but you're just going to kind of start screwing it in there. Now you can also use a if you have your head off or if you got the room you can use a ratchet on it. You can use one of the big T handles. I don't have that room so I'm just going to put some grease on here and start screwing it in with my wrench that I have right here. See it's 13 16ths. Now if you don't like the idea of that plugs not being as close to the to the piston then you can always you can always cut this thing off you know. You know what I mean so but there's three different sizes here. This was like $22 for this kit so let me get some grease slap on there we're going to get started. Okay so this is kind of on the one as you can see probably hopefully just putting a little bit of grease on here and that grease will stop 95 98% of them cuttings that are that wouldn't normally just drop in there okay and well because we got to screw this all the way in all right so there we got some grease on here you can use a little oil it also helps helps with the cutting process you just the hardest parts getting it to start straight okay so we're going to go ahead and get this started and it's going it's a little time consuming if you have to use a wrench if you use a ratchet it's not as bad because it has to start it has to take away some aluminum before it even gets to starting to thread it okay so this is what we're going to do I'm just going to keep on doing this until it gets started okay so I'm not going to bore you with that see it's starting to cut so this thing was so so stripped out to begin with this one's not going to be that bad to start but all right so I'm going to go ahead and get this started and I'll kick you back on and I'll show you we got to run it up until it starts running easy okay guys now I think it's worth mentioning now this is only this set that I've got is only for this kind of plug with the with the washers on it it's not for this kind of plug okay it's for the ones with the washers that's why excuse me that's why it's got I dropped this in the sand I'll have to clean it all that's why it's got this little a little lip on the end of it there that's for your crush washer to go up against now we're getting pretty close it's been about 10 minutes like I said it does take a little time but it's starting to get feels like it's screwing in okay so like I said all I did like right here I held my thumb up against there and I just kept turning this and cleaning out the threads turning it cleaning out the threads it feels like they may be cutting now so this ain't the right size wrench but see what's weird about this is this is a 13 16th wrench it will fit on this way but it won't fit that way weird huh so let's go ahead and sorry guys let me back you out a little bit now that you can see what's going on okay so now I have done this on aluminum headed cars for people never one of my own you know when money's tight you can fix it for you know $22 or 2200 and if you you know if money's tight you just can't always go buy a brand new head you know and in this case it's 1963 evan root 18 fast ones so these heads are getting hard to find the company that I got this head from they took care of me they sent me a new gasket in case you know I got to pull this head off but they have four or five of these but all of them have the bottom hole stripped out and I don't understand maybe it is a little hard to get to but I didn't have any problem getting the spark plug in and out of there so all right so now I'm just going to start back and forth go you know a couple turns go back and forth it's like that and I'm going to keep cutting these threads in until I get that to go all the way in or as far as I can without hitting the piston been about 20 minutes now and we got it where it's going in so now we're just going to run it up yeah see if this was the top one I'd be able to use this on it right there but since it's not well as you can see it's not uh it's not going to fit down there so whoops sorry we're just going to run this in as far as we can now what what it'll do it'll get really tight and you're going to think oh my god don't worry about it and then it'll start getting loose so don't worry about it you didn't strip it I mean it's already stripped away that's just when you hit the you know the mark where it's cutting threads now so like I said it takes some time now if this was off the bench I said you can use a t-handle you can use a socket ratchet um I've seen guys use step bits to get them started better than what this can but in this case I couldn't do it I checked because I was going to show you that but damn but um I wasn't able to get my drill bit it wouldn't have been straight it would have been had an angle so yeah it's uh I'm just gonna keep going till I feel it start to get up against the piston if it even does pretty deep cylinder though and now you can see how easy that's that's turning it's got some nice threads cut in there like I said I've I've done this a lot for people on like lawn mower heads and uh from Ohio um snowmobile heads and uh you know people get a lot of money and especially around christmas times like look man can you get you know can you get me by with something and nine times out of ten that ended up just being a fixed form I you know I'll come back and get a new head uh they come back and get something else done but they're like you know it ain't broke why fix it right and I'm like okay if you're you know if it's working good for you it sure enough would be so all the way to the end of the threads I'm not going to go anymore I'm not going to take it you know to where and then I have trouble trying to get this threaded back out you know what I mean now it should come out nice and easy then we're ready for our insert which I need to go find I forgot to grab my uh my lock tight now as you can see all these I'll show them to I'll show it to you once I get it out of here too all them thread cuttings now I kept wiping it off as I went so that would be even be less see it it caught most of the the cuttings so now I'm gonna wipe this off nice and clean looks pretty good in there now what you can do you can pull that rope a couple times or if it's on something with electric start crank it over a couple times and it'll blow some of that out okay now yeah I see it blew a little bit out I don't know if the camera picked it up okay so I'm gonna get some air blow this out I'm gonna bore you with that and then I'll get my lock tight and I'll show you how we're gonna put the uh insert in okay now before I put put this in there I'm gonna put some grease on the threads of my spark plug and I'll explain to you why in here just a second that's in case I happen to get any of this thread locker on these threads the grease won't let it lock okay so because you don't want to put them on here you want to put them on here okay so it shouldn't because it's kind of up in there a little bit but uh whoa and that's it just a slight just a little tiny bit is all it's gonna take okay now let's go ahead and screw this in here there we go just had to must have a little burr on it so let's go ahead and tighten this up and I'm gonna pull it back out wipe the grease off once this thread locker sets up we'll let it set a couple minutes I'll pull that plug back out wipe it out make sure everything's good excuse me but what I want to do right now I want to pull this over and make sure that piston's not going to hit anything and it's not okay cool all right so I'll be back with you in just a minute we'll pull this plug back out clean it off we'll stick both plugs in we'll get some water under it see if see if it'll fire up okay we're going to go ahead and put these plugs in like I said we'll get some water and put underneath and fire it up a lot of guys might tell you that's not the right way that's not the proper way well what is the proper way what is the right way uh if you do this and it works but you put a brand new head on and it works really I mean what's you know is there really a difference in that you know uh I understand we're the coming friend there's some things I don't like to do either but that's that plug I was using for demonstration uh but you know I mean I understand in a way uh but I mean this would I recommend it if it works for you and it's in your budget yeah I mean because I know I've never had one blow out I've never had any issues and I've never heard of anyone having any issues after doing this none my uncle one of the best mechanics ever knew in my life I've seen him do that a bunch of times I've seen him doing on cars like I said I've done it on cars before with aluminum heads and uh never had an issue never scored a piston or anything so but so what I gotta do now is I gotta move this stuff hit my primer bulb a couple of times all right now I gotta get some water and I'll move you back let's fire it up so anyway I was gonna tell you the company I got the head from the woman I talked to wasn't real happy with her mechanics she said that's one of the first things she even read off a list that they needed to check on these old heads before they get sent out number one was make sure it's not warped number two check the threads for the spark plugs this was not apparently not checked so anyway I want to tell you they gave me a full refund told me to keep the head and try this and plus they said if you gotta pull that head back off we understand a lot of people you know even whether it's running or not I don't like to do it I probably could on something like this get by since it hadn't been running and it hadn't really sealed I could probably get by pulling the head off and torquing it back down a couple pounds more than uh normal I don't like doing that but if I had to I would have wouldn't have been a big issue so she said uh listen if you if you got if you can get me a part number for that head gasket I'll I'll tell you what I'll even we'll buy you a head gasket and send you a head gasket you keep that head if you can fix it great if not you know and she was very apologetic so I thought that was great they took good care of me so yeah I love companies like that so anyway I just wanted to throw that in there I got water filling up now we're just about ready to start it so let's do this let's see what happens here man speed up and then I'm going to go ahead and tighten them and then bolts back down up there sounds like I need to adjust the carburetor no big deal so I'll be back with you in a minute okay guys so there's how you fix a stripped-out spark plug hole on an aluminum head um I just started it up again started up fine everything but you saw it was pumping but now it's not pissing any water so I think the water pump might have went out it had one put in it or supposedly so it looks like I'm going to be putting the water pump in it's not that big of a deal and it's not very expensive it just you know when you got a boat break out another thousand right so anyway see it's it's it's easy it just take your time and make sure it goes in straight you'll be all right from my hand so but uh so I'm not sure about that why it why it just quit it quit pumping all of a sudden so probably the water pump it was pumping great and it always did but now the water pumping out I think so hopefully that's the only issue um I took the thermostat out to see if that did anything thermostat was open so it didn't I thought maybe that might have just stuck for some reason but it didn't it was open so I tried it anyway and it's still not pumping now but it was pumping a minute ago so but that's what that's how they go it's just rubber rubber impeller in there so all right guys I'm gonna say shea bearer myth man alleged I'm going from hopefully that helps somebody you can use that on pretty much any aluminum head you can't use it on cast iron heads guys that you will have to take your head off drill it out put a healy coil in whatever you got to do but uh uh but it'll work fine on these small aluminum heads uh four cylinders I've never put them in a v8 like a corvette engine aluminum headed engine with high compression I don't think I will do that but I have used them in four cylinders uh I put one in a six cylinder once never had an issue but these small engines go for it won't it's not that big of a deal but anyway guys thanks for watching appreciate it we'll see you in the next one bye bye guys and take care