He most likely put the bolt on the airgun socket and tried to start it in there NASCAR pitstop style. He should have hand threaded it most of the way and then just used the gun to get it up to the approx specs. Then verify with a torque wrench.

 

Gottcha.

Exactly why I don't use impact/air tools to tighten stuff...too much potential for damage.

 

Want me to list your real alias?

 

oh right of course, not your fault...

how are those clear corners holding up for you, proving reliable?

 

Did I piss in your cornflakes, or are you only screwing around? Sometimes you're hard to read...

I seriously meant nothing bad by thinking you were on_alert or whatever...

 

hmm hmm hmm hmmm

 

Thanks for the PM, sorry this got so mixed up. It's all good

truly sorry this thread went to hell compliments of Jeff92se. hope all works out on the fly bolts, sounds like you have it under control.

 

Nothing to see here folks...move along

 

Hi Hal

 

You don't read so good do you?????


you missed my post where I said the bolts were started by HAND


justin.. I'll get ahold of you tomorrow... and if the helicoil WON'T work... I was thinking the next size up bolt and forcing it into the hole???

Or MAYBE tapping the FORGED CRANK won't be as bad as I think...

This sucks goat nut$

 

I be writn/reedin' goodly thank you! I saw the post just now. Must have been stripped before. Did it hand screw the same as the others? ie.. same effort?

 

I "think" ... honestly I do not know....

but I tightened all of them with a ratchet and then with the air gun.

I may have done it. Sometimes I think "goodntight" or "the tighter the better" sometimes.

I never thought about checking it before hand.

Although after this I will.

Lesson #212 in doing a motor swap..lol

It just really sucks. I have less than 2 days work remaining and this happened.

My car WOULD be running, if the motor works, by sunday at the latest. Now I have to go into work like a dog mode to try and get it done.

But I have thursday and friday and sunday so I may make it.

Again thanks fo rhte helicoil suggestion

 

I was just wondering why you said he wouldnt have gotten 95 ft-lbs of torque unless he used a torque wrench? I can definitely put 100 ft-lbs of torque on a 3/8 rachet if i wanted to. And why would a torque wrench give more torque than a rachet?

(sorry to get off track again)

 

Dude...just forget it. I'm not in the mood to explain the whole thing...just re-read his posts. And the 3/8" ratchets that were there when I was there would not yield 95 ft/lbs TQ because they have a short handle (fulcrum, leverage)...

Right...

 

Have yall noticed how bags double spaces in all of his posts?

 

It's supposed to be easier to read the posts that way...

 

got the tranny off and looked at the threads...

about 1/4 inch of the begining of the threads is gone.. it's smooth..

BUT from what I can tel the rest of the threads are good..

Only about 3/4 threads stick into the crank leaving almost a 1/2 inch of hole.

I was thinking of putting longer bolts in ALL 8 holes ..

what do yall think?????

 

1/4" of the beginning of just the stripped one is smooth, or all 8 for the first 1/4" are smooth?

I wonder why they didn't use longer bolts to begin with.

Longer bolts will work fine as long as there is no kind of obstruction at all...

 

sorry justin, Just the 1 hole has 1/4 of the begining stripped.

That's what I thought as well.

Being that I want to keep a balanced load, changing 1 would make it unbalanced.

So I'll get 8 new bolts tomorrow... IF I am lucky the car will be almost done tomorrow.

Call me whenever your coming by. I plan on being there early and satying late...

no rest for the wicked

 

Bag's - again, good luck with it. Just blame it on Bijan, I'm sure he wont mind

Hal, believe it or not, Quick and Jeff really are geniuses

 

I'm not sure if that was a rip at Hal, or Jeff and I...