Re: Oil Pan bolt stripped into the timing cover, fix?
[Re: cudabitten]
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If it's an outer bolt you can use a longer bolt & use a nut...
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Re: Oil Pan bolt stripped into the timing cover, fix?
[Re: cudabitten]
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Pull the cover and helicoil it.
Some might suggest a larger diameter bolt and rethreading the cover, but that's a poor choice, imo.
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Re: Oil Pan bolt stripped into the timing cover, fix?
[Re: 1_WILD_RT]
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05/19/13 07:53 PM
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If it's an outer bolt you can use a longer bolt & use a nut...
That would be the quick and easy "git er done" fix!
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Re: Oil Pan bolt stripped into the timing cover, fix?
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05/19/13 08:55 PM
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you have come this far so dont goober it up on the hickabilly bolt/nut trick. pull the cover or the pan and put a helicoil insert into the t-cover,make sure to remove the tang on the coil before running the bolt thru it. I have a cover that both holes have been done this way for a long while now. my one SB alum intake has had a helicoil put into every bolt hole with threds on it. fix it once and be done with it. you dont want a goober nut/bolt on a nice painted engine.
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Re: Oil Pan bolt stripped into the timing cover, fix?
[Re: scratchnfotraction]
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05/19/13 10:29 PM
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I usually end up helicoiling any aluminum threads on my engines. I spent the money for the kits years ago and it's paid for itself more than once.
Just cheap penny pinching to built it that way by the manufacturers.
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Re: Oil Pan bolt stripped into the timing cover, fix?
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05/20/13 12:22 PM
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Ok, you guys are right. I probably would have put the nut on there and looked at it for 20 min, then jumped in my car to find a helicoil kit. Plus engine is upside down on stand with only the 4 bottom bolts holding the timing cover on. I can have it off in less than a minute.
If ythe engine is still on the stand fixing it the right way makes sense , if it were in the car and you needed to get it fixed for the morning commute then the longer bolt and nut is the way to go .
I also helicoil alum threads I know will come apart more than once in a lifetime. I have done a few transmission jobs that have had the pan, pump and valvebody holes all helicoiled while I have it on the bench.
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Re: Oil Pan bolt stripped into the timing cover, fix?
[Re: babarracuda]
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05/21/13 11:44 AM
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Isn't a helicoil longer than the width of the cover hole? I guess you could put in the heicoil with permanent thread bonder and after it dries, cut off the excess that sticks out on the top. A long bolt and nut seems the simplest fix to me.
Helicoils come in a variety of lengths, you can buy a KIT that is a little more costly than the Ace hardware kit that has 3 different length coils .
Or you can trim a as many turns off as necessary BEFORE installing one by using a dremel with a tiny cutoff wheel , I've done it multiple times.
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