Replacing my clutch.

Unfortunately, I stripped one of the bolts from the clutch to the flywheel. I was being extremely careful, using torque wrench and torquing to spec. Oh well. It is not badly stripped since I stopped immediately.

Obviously, the most conservative fix is to replace the flywheel.

However, I'm wondering if I could go without one bolt out of the three bolt set - middle if it matters. And if so, I'm guessing I should completely remove the bolt to prevent it from coming loose.

The only other thing I can think to do is to threadlock it down. FSM doesn't call for treadlock on those bolts.

Any experienced suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

One missing bolt will throw the balance off quite a bit.
Drill, tap, heli-coil, fix it right, you don't want to open it up again.

 

Thanks!

 

I second what njmaxseltd said. You want to do it right from the get go though.