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Stripped the bolts in the bottom of my auto trans.

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Old 01-24-2004, 11:52 AM
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Stripped the bolts in the bottom of my auto trans.

this happened back when I was replacing my crank shaft pulley. I was looking for the trap door on my trans and unscrewed the wrong bolts. When I put them back in, I stripped the holes, (not sure how, i was only using hand power). Anyway, i've been watching my trans since this happened about 1.5 months ago. Now its starting to leak fluid at the joint where the 2 bolts held the trans together. How can I fix this? Is there some kind of heat resistant gunk that you can put in screw holds so that they're not stripped anymore or anything? thanks


here's a pic showing the bolts/holes i stripped. the ones to the right of the black metal strip, not the one to the left.



the larger bolts in the pic are the ones i'm talking about.
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Old 01-24-2004, 03:13 PM
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also, it only leaked a little bit and i don't think its done it before. its just that i drove about 70 miles today at about 90 mph.
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Old 01-24-2004, 07:11 PM
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you mean the pan bolts for the A/T? I did the same thing. I'm doing a tranny pan drop for maintainance tomorrow and I'll see if i can extract that thing. I'll see if i can grab the little nub that's left with a visegrip. Maybe you could drill and tap a new hole somewhere off to the side? I might have to do that too cause there's a little bit of seepage where the bolt is missing. You should definitely get a new gasket as that may be the problem if you took the pan off.
Good luck, I'll let you know what happens with mine
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Originally Posted by kchida
you mean the pan bolts for the A/T? I did the same thing. I'm doing a tranny pan drop for maintainance tomorrow and I'll see if i can extract that thing. I'll see if i can grab the little nub that's left with a visegrip. Maybe you could drill and tap a new hole somewhere off to the side? I might have to do that too cause there's a little bit of seepage where the bolt is missing. You should definitely get a new gasket as that may be the problem if you took the pan off.
Good luck, I'll let you know what happens with mine

no, i mean the bolts that hold the trans onto the engine. Like where the torque convertor is.
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