stripped rocker box bolt
stripped rocker box bolt
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From: Minneapolis Area, MN
http://www.emhart.com/products/helicoil.asp
Great fix as long as you have the radial and axial clearance to fit the slightly larger helicoil... as well as the ability to drill and tap the damaged tapped hole for the helicoil.
Great fix as long as you have the radial and axial clearance to fit the slightly larger helicoil... as well as the ability to drill and tap the damaged tapped hole for the helicoil.
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From: NW AR
Yeah, a helicoil from the auto parts store. Aren't those 1/4x20? Most of the little bolts are. Now, can you get to the thing? If it's outside the frame area, you lucked out. If it is under the frame, you're probably going to have to pull the head. You can do it all without a drill. I have found that usually the drill bit that the kit comes with can just be turned in by hand and it will just clean out anything left of the old threads. Then you run the tap in, then the coils.
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You say the bolt is stripped...Do you really mean the threads in the head are stripped?
Last edited by Dan89FLSTC; Aug 11, 2009 at 05:01 PM.
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6th Gear
Joined: Jul 2008
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From: Salinas
Not the bolt. But its one of the four bolts that hold thetop part of the rear rocker box on. I put new gaskets on the top end because I blew a head gasket and when I put the thing back together the last bolt I put in stripped the hole. Murphys law I guess.