Welding EA81 Blocks

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phillatdarwin
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Post by phillatdarwin » Fri Dec 25, 2009 2:50 pm

u will have to strip it down if u want to weld it up .
so u can clean it all up before it is welded

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Devcon Aluminium Putty

Post by Bushby » Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:24 pm

Greetings,
Here is a link to a product that I successfully used on a cracked Holley fuel bowl.

http://www.devcon.com/products/products ... milyid=107

Bought it from Blackwoods I think.

Hope this helps.

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Post by phillatdarwin » Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:56 am

it is good but if it gos over 98c not good at all gos all soft and sticky

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Post by Matt » Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:57 pm

Just had to bit the buillet and pulled my block out today and got it tig'ed up! It worked really well even the guy doing it was surprised... Just need to get the thread sorted on the oil pressure sender and i am all done!
I did smach my old record down to hour to pull the motor out and about hour and half to put it back in!
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Post by phillatdarwin » Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:17 pm

that is not bad for doing a engine .
i did my clutch in 3hours when i replace it some time back

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