well now it's a 5/16-18

Roy in georgia · Dec 23, 2008

I tried the weld washer and then nut on and worked it back and forth for about 15 min. and it broke off again so I drilled and installed a heli-coil. This is on the broken exhaust bolt in the aluminum head. it was a M8-1.25 so with 1 oddball bolt it should be easy to tell what is going on in the future. I thought today would be my lucky day when I sat the vice grip pliers on the engine and they slid off and missed my foot but that was the only lucky thing so far

trucker40 · Dec 23, 2008

Well its fixed now and you didnt have to replace the head.Id say thats lucky.

Roy in georgia · Dec 23, 2008

yeah I guess but I knew I could do the heli-coil and wanted it to be the metric but those heli-coil kits are a few more $$$ that I wanted to spend on a metric one when I had the 5/16-18 from when I built my C-6 trans in my truck last year

case441 · Dec 23, 2008

I"m glad every thing worked out for you. Merry Christmas.

Brad

Bob · Dec 24, 2008

What was the head from? Been seeing quite a few end exhaust bolts snapped off in the aluminum heads on "LS-1" series Chevy engines around here lately.

Roy in georgia · Dec 24, 2008

Ford 5.4 luckily I was able to fix it out of the truck as I had just rebuilt the bottom end.

well now it's a 5/16-18

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