Folks,

Firs of all thank you to all that responded.  I
enjoyed all he comments from the kind to the pithy.
Regarding the "poor bastard" comment - no worries  I
took that as it was intended.

So any rate, to the task.  After reading the comments
I ended up taking Mr. Ricardo's advice and it seems to
be working just fine.  The bolt I bought at the FLAPS
was a self tapping type so I plan to replace it with a
regular bolt at the next the next oil change to
minimize the chance of cross-threading.

You folks are a great resource.

Barry

--- ' ' <rrecardo@webtv.net> wrote:

> While it seems that everyone has a complicated
> solution to this ongoing
> problem of cleaning up the threads of where the heli
> coil once was,
> there is an easy answer and it's short and sweet.
>
> Locate a thead size chart, and find the closest next
> size larger
> amreican thread to the metric size. ( I'd tell you
> but I don't have one
> right here in front of me )
>
> And just use a thread chaser in the drain hole.
>
> It'll clean up what's left of the pilot hole for the
> heli coil that was
> there, and give you fresh threads to crank an
> american thread plug in
> the hole.
>
> Your all done in about 10 minutes.
>
>
>
>