head wont come off?
 

have you ever had any troubles with getting the head off the block? My a6 head will not come off for the life of me. All the head bolts are out and the intake is off as well as the exaust manifold?

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BFRM. Nah just work at it. And post in the right section, your dumb ass should know by now.

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not sure what that means but.....man up and pull the bitch if everything is unhooked....the timing belt is unhooked right

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i took the timing belt off the cam gear yea.

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Distributor?

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could i use anything to help get it off? Maybe a rubber mallet or some ----?

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yea those two bolts are off as well as the the two on the other side

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i seriously have pulled on it for the life of me. I can feel the block moving along with it.

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drop it off your roof

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is the intake completley off?

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yea, all of the bolts are off it.

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ok but can u pull it away from the head?

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yea

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i was kind of hoping someone would tell me i missed a bolt or something, damn.

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simple if it doesnt pull away there is something holdin it on


The worst case is you can take a hammer to the water neck and give it a quick pop and there you go head off

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Have your little sister help you pull, Sally. :P

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huh?

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forget some head bolts?

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nope, 10 total correct?

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lift up a little on one side, then do it to the other side, and work its way back and forth. dont go hog wild on it, but kinda work it...you know.

then lift straight up.

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yea i know how to work them off, because i just took a y8 head off for the mini me. Are there any bolts on the a6 motor connecting the head that arent on the y8. And yea this thing wont budge, so you cannot really work it.

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look over everything again

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2x4 to the bottom of the water neck FTW.

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thats what im thinking, i just dont wanna hit it hard then find out there was some mysterious bolt connecting the block to the head, and then my block is fucked. Is it possible for a head to be severly stuck to the block? The motor does have 185k?

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MLS gaskets on later engines don't sticky-sticky like composite gasket on the A6.

For great justice!

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I had to beat the ---- outta my A6 with a 2lb mallet for it to pop

Just hit the outside area where the valve cover connects and hit inwards

I probably took 20 min to get mine off but my engine was on a stand.

Like JD said, the stock a6 gasket is composite bullshit, have fun scraping that off your block/head to

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Yep WOT's right. I had similar issues gettin my A6 head off. Its stuck to that gasket, rubber mallet is your friend. And for getting the old gasket off the block, i used the dremel with the steel brush bit, worked pretty well, then u get hit in the eye with little metal bristles once the brush nears the end of its life. Fun stuff.

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im just going to put a piece of a two by four on the water next that connects to the radiator, then hit it with a hammer.

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think of that all by yourself.

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water neck comment by me first

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Swear at it and tell it if it doesn't come of it's getting replace with something american. It'll jump off the block. I say crowbar FTW under the dist.

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im gonna tell it that if it does not come off i am going to turbo my gp automatic instead of it.

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when me and a friend we younger and stupidier we pulled his 350 out of his nova by the head with all the bolts out. it was just hella stuck on there.

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Bolt the IM back on and use it for leverage. If it doesnt come off then soak the engine bay with gasoline and then throw a match on it. That should heat the head up a bit and she'll come off easy as butter. ;)

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or he could just put it all back together except for the head studs. start the fucker and rev until it pops!

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stick a pallet jack under it

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haha

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this is why tards arent suppose to work on cars

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piss on it and put it back together

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89shithatch voted dumbest noob of the year!