I prefer Time-Serts, but a helicoil will work. Cheers, Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of John Rodgers Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:29 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Stripped threads That's it! Helicoil! Thanks! John On Feb 17, 2015 1:22 PM, "Mike Miller" <mwmiller6@att.net> wrote: > Helicoil? > > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:17 AM, John Rodgers wrote: > > > OK! Stroke Brain at work here. What the devil is the deviced called > > that can be put in place to restore a badly damaged thread. Can't > > remember for the life of me. > > > > Hole in alternator frame for belt tensioning device is stripped and > > it won't hold, Alternator works fine, just the hole in the aluminum is gone. > > Need to drill it out and put some of steel in there. > > > > Thanks, > > > > John > > |
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