Fixing threads on Ferraris

These are some of the mundane jobs that make restoration so difficult. Fixing threads and getting stubborn fasteners loose.

Ferrari oil pans are a beautiful casting but on not a great material for threading in an oil plug. We have to repair these threads on nearly every Ferrari that comes in for an engine overhaul. In order to keep the customer up to date on what we are doing, we frequently label what we are working on.

The next photo is a brass plug threated into a steel coolant tube. In order to get this out, Eben welded the steel tube to a scrap of steel and used heat, time and penetrating oil to free the plug.

Fixing threads in Ferrari oil pan

Removing brass plug on Ferrari plug