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Originally Posted by BoxxerSix
You should be VERY careful pushing on those studs like that. You'd never catch me doing such a thing and for good reason. You can easily break off the case, and it'll cost you alot more for the TIG + machine repairs than the time spent in slowly tapping the case apart the old way. I've repaired numerous cases because of what you pictured above, and/or from people driving against the case perimeter studs.
There were as of last week a couple GT3 cases on ebay with broken casings like this.
There are key areas where you can drive against one side of the case with a wood dowel to get the parting line open, then use wooden or nylon wedges to slowly separate the halves. Cheap plastic door stop wedges, or even plastic log splitting wedges are a cheap DIY tool in a pinch. Both available at just about any hardware store for ~$5.
Glad you got it to separate without breaking, just be cautious in the future with this method.
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I felt I whaled pretty hard on the case with a hammer and wooden dowel (and with a spreader in place between the fan housing mounts) before I gave up and decided to try spreading on the engine mount studs.
Your point is well taken and is the kind of feed back necessary for this thread to be more useful. I am careful to point out my non-expert-ness.
I may have dodged a bullet in my naivete. The wedges are a great idea once you have a part started. It's getting that initial part that was the hard part.
The other important lesson for me in this exercise is to be sure to use a more appropriate case sealant.
Brett