Posted by RBoots on February 09, 2019 at 17:51:13 from (173.241.113.101):
In Reply to: tapered plugs posted by fixerupper on February 08, 2019 at 18:08:25:
I had never stitched anything before, but when I mentioned to a neighbor that I had a cracked block that I was pondering welding, he said he had a stitch kit and wanted to see if it worked, and told me to try it out on my block. This block had a crack about 6" long on the water jacket. This kit had the bolts that the head would snap off when it was tight enough. I used the 5/16" threaded pins. I eyeballed the holes and prick punched each one, then drilled them all, then tapped every hole, and then installed the pins. Then I roughly ground the remaining shank down near where I wanted it, then went through in between each of the pins and prick punched all the holes for the second row of pins. Drilled, tapped, installed the threaded pins. I used loctite on all the pins when I screwed them in. Once I had both rows of pins done, I ground them all down flush with the block. Then I used a flap wheel on an angle grinder, smoothed and blended the whole area together, then ran over the entire smoothed area with a needle scaler. It disappeared. You won't find it no matter how hard you look. I immediately filled it with coolant and hooked it to a flail chopper and put it to work. It was either going to work or fail right away, so I wanted to find out. I've done a few more since then, it's pretty easy. I bought a pack of 75 or a hundred stitch pins and they will do a lot of work with that many. Don't remember where I got them from, somewhere online. The pins weren't bad, but the special tap for them was like $25. I think it was around a hundred bucks for the tap and however many pins I bought. I need to figure out where I got them, I need to do a Case block.
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