David Neibert
SCCoA Admin
I'm getting ready to install a new VB on the turbo car and expect about half the bolt holes for pan bolts to be stripped out, because the last time i removed the pan about half the threads came out with the bolt. I believe the bolts are 8 mm 1.25 pitch, but I can't remember how many there are....anybody know ?
While the pan is off I'm planning to repair all the stripped threads with helicoil but I'm unsure how the helicoils lock in place when the hole goes thru the flange as they do on some of the holes on the sides. I'm not concerned with the blind holes, just thru holes. I would like to use the keen serts, but they require drilling and tapping a much larger hole (something like 14mm), and I'm not sure there is enough material on the bolting flange to use them on all the holes. If anyone has repaired the pan bolt threads and can answer my questions, it would be apreciated.
David
PS: I'm also going to change over from Dextron/Mercon III to John Deere Hydraulic fluid.
While the pan is off I'm planning to repair all the stripped threads with helicoil but I'm unsure how the helicoils lock in place when the hole goes thru the flange as they do on some of the holes on the sides. I'm not concerned with the blind holes, just thru holes. I would like to use the keen serts, but they require drilling and tapping a much larger hole (something like 14mm), and I'm not sure there is enough material on the bolting flange to use them on all the holes. If anyone has repaired the pan bolt threads and can answer my questions, it would be apreciated.
David
PS: I'm also going to change over from Dextron/Mercon III to John Deere Hydraulic fluid.