The difference being the glow plug sees really high temps about never and the exhaust stud sees really high temps about always. I have BTDT. Fought it for a couple years before I finally gave up and pulled the exhaust and thermostat housing to get to the l/h rear upper stud. Took a couple hours to install the Keen-sert and now it's FIXED! I had tried every band-aid known to man. JB Weld, Loctite, helicoil... Finally Keen-sert. No more pulled stud. Jim Bradley Flubacher wrote: > > Contrary to what everyone has said so far, I have had recent luck with > JB weld. About 3,000 miles ago, I JB welded a glow plug into a diesel > head. So far so good... although the other responses you got have me > worried! > |
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