<VV> Stripped Oil Pan

[J R Read_HML]

IF (note the big IF) you are lucky, and longer bolts have not already been 
used - that is something to try.  There is three or four unused threads left 
up there with the stock bolts.
Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Green" <jgreen at alum.mit.edu>
To: <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:27 PM
Subject: <VV> Stripped Oil Pan


>I stripped the threads on one of my oil pan bolt holes and would like 
>advice
> on how to fix it. Would you suggest (i)helicoil, (ii) timesert, or (iii)
> some other method? also, are the holes blind so I don't need to worry 
> about
> chips falling up into the crankcase?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Green
> 1965 Monza 110/4
> Corsa member
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