What about going to thte next oversize bolt?  Possibly even SAE rather than
metric?  Might be easier and cleaner than a helicoil.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|pickle vanagon
|Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 5:45 AM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: noise SOLVED. Now need to Heli-Coil?
|
|You've won a pair of convex vanagon side mirrors (for pickup only!!) in new
|jersey.
|
|
|But yeah, I can get a new bolt in, it just doesn't grab on.  Seems to me
|like I'm going to have to add material somehow...
|
|
|
|On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Robert Fisher
|<garciasghostvw@gmail.com>wrote:
|
|> --snip--
|> Robert Fisher was right.
|> --snip--
|>
|> Cool; what'd I win? : )
|>
|> --snip--
|> one of the four tranny mount bolt holes has stripped out threads.  Is a
|> heli-coil the answer here?
|> --snip--
|>
|> You don't think there's enough left to just chase the threads with a tap?
|>
|> Cya,
|> Robert
|>