Having noticed a leak under the thermostat housing yesterday and the housing threads for the thermostat are gone so i decided to replace the gasket and the housing today as i had a spare, but it didnt quite go to plan
after 2 of the bolt heads snapped the third just came out, so my new plan was to slide the housing off and put a stud extractor on the 2 bolts and take them out but the housing dosent want to slide off the bolts,ive managed to break the seal between the housing and the cylinder head but cant get it off.
Any ideas? oh and my mot is on moday