Need help urgently! AGAIN
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Mountain Pass
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Need help urgently! AGAIN
Start heading for Oviedo to pick up a Cat 3208 motor for later down the road and the steering suddenly ain't so easy, the battery light comes on and boom, coolant goes everywhere and I'm on the side of I-95. I got it back to the house and here's the carnage. I'm needing help pretty quick.
I really don't know where to go from here. The bolt that held the bracket in sheared off and I can't tell if there was even anything else holding the bracket on. I know I'm gonna have to drill and tap for a new bolt, but how far in and is there a water jacket on the other side? What else was there that was supposed to be holding this bracket in place? Help?
I really don't know where to go from here. The bolt that held the bracket in sheared off and I can't tell if there was even anything else holding the bracket on. I know I'm gonna have to drill and tap for a new bolt, but how far in and is there a water jacket on the other side? What else was there that was supposed to be holding this bracket in place? Help?
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Wow, sorry to see that. That bracket is held on by three bolts. Looks like all three sheared off and are flush with your head. Best bet is to drill them and use a bolt extractor. Hopefully, you'll save the threads, if not it'll be Helicoil time.
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Most definitely three bolts. Shouldn't be oblong, but if it was only held on by one bolt I could see how the bolt enlarged the hole before shearing. I'm not sure of the thread size but that bracket is attached by three bolts; two are removed with a 1/2" socket and the larger one is 9/16"
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I worked it out myself. The bolt that was holding it on was the hole has threads in it was the only one with a bolt. Do you know how long the bolts are? Also, the bolt hole in the red circle in the second pic in post #4 is the oblong shaped hole.
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They're all equal, so take the broken bolt to the shop as a reference, it should have about 1" of thread at least.
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Theres definitely 3 bolts in the head. I'm not sure why the hole is oblong. Maybe for a period of time it got buggered, since it was the only thing holding the bracket on. I think these bolts are about 3 inches long, but never measured one.
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I'm goin in the morning to pull the three bolts I need and will place them through the bolt holes in the bracket, measure what sticks out and drill to that depth, then tap it. Any chance anyone knows if these bolts are hardened?
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Show the top of the bolt head to the guy in the hardware store, or do a search on whatever the symbols there mean (or post it here). Or check this out: bolts: metric standards
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