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Re: Inner driver bolts came out with trans threads?
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:07:24
In Reply to: Inner driver bolts came out with trans threads?, KTurner, Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:33:42
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How many of the threads? Look in and see how many remain, maybe clean up with a tap, used lightly. (M8? Make sure, and make sure you're not re-threading but following the existing threads. If you don't want to buy a tap, then file or cut a groove down the side of a bolt of the correct thread, for the cleaned-out material to go.) Then see if there's room for slightly longer bolts and if so replace the old ones. If you decide to reuse the old ones clean their threads up with a wire brush wheel to get rid of all broken thread and old loctite.
They're not under a lot of strain and the load is shared so if there's something there to hold them you'll probably be fine even with damaged threads at every hole, as long as there are some threads there.
Seems to me as if the culprit might be in part over-torquing by the last assembler. Some people don't know the difference between aluminum and steel.
Definitely use loctite this time anyway, but keep your head when it comes to how hard to tighten them.
Helicoils or tapping out oversize are pretty elaborate answers, maybe you can avoid them or save them for just one or two holes; or if you feel you must, then split the difference and do every other hole.
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