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stripped threads in frame hole - help?
Posted: Wed May 31, 2000 11:11 pm
by run2hills@aol.com
Dear, dear List,
Removing the upper bracket of the coolant reserve tank, I have managed to
strip the threads in the frame mounting hole. There seems to have been lots
of upwards pressure on the bracket, because as I was removing the bolt with a
socket wrench, it didn't come out straight, but rather at an upwards angle (I
thought that the removal torque required was a bit high, and it was getting
dark, so I didn't see the impending doom).
I think that I could bend the bracket downwards to realign with the
mounting hole for reassembly, but what to do with the stripped threads in the
frame?
Distraught in Colorado,
Eric
A13L with 1000 smiles, now almost in tears
PS-need threads stripped? I'm your man.
nklr stripped threads in frame hole ii
Posted: Wed May 31, 2000 11:36 pm
by run2hills@aol.com
Hello again all,
For future reference, if a bracket is flexed tightly to fit and bolted
down in, say, 2 places, how do you remove one of the bolts without the force
of the stored energy shearing (and thereby stripping) the threads?
Question number two: how do you know if the thing that you are removing
has been compressed to assemble in the first place?
Thank you and God bless you one and all,
Eric- the thread stripper
A13L
>>> Removing the upper bracket of the coolant reserve tank, I have managed
to
strip the threads in the frame mounting hole. There seems to have been lots
of upwards pressure on the bracket, because as I was removing the bolt with a
socket wrench, it didn't come out straight, but rather at an upwards angle (I
thought that the removal torque required was a bit high, and it was getting
dark, so I didn't see the impending doom).
I think that I could bend the bracket downwards to realign with the
mounting hole for reassembly, but what to do with the stripped threads in the
frame?