Frozen head bolt / engine reconditioning

tajonMember

Trying to remove my cylinder heads today and both heads have a frozen bolt. The bolt that is frozen is the middle bolt on the outside of the head. Ironically it is the same bolt on both heads. It seems that my options are to cut the head of the bolt off, lift off the head, then try to extract to bolt or try heating the block a bit to see if that will free up the bolt. I am leary of heating the block. The last thing I need is to crack a perfectly good block. Any ideas?

After I get the heads off I am wondering which head studs you would recommend? I read the posts about switch from bolts and it sounds like a good idea.

Thanks

1/14/1812:56 PM

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