Subject: RE: Broken bolt Blues cont.
Author: Ray Hale
Date: Dec 28, 2004, 11:16 AM
Post ID: 1718121125
Hate to be the one to state the obvious but sometimes we need reminding
and this is a great teaching moment. Do what you can when assembling, to
prevent these things from happening. Make sure every thread, external
and internal are clean and straight. Invest in a good set of taps and
dies. Lubricate where applicable, grease, anti-sleeze, whatever,
something. Believe me, I'm reminding myself here. Have bunged up two
bolts and one hole during the on-going, never-ending Eldo rebuild. One
of them gave me the excuse I needed to install studs for the generator
bracket, so that was a good thing.
Ray
Cam Conklin wrote:
Thanks for all the input. Mark, what's an "easy out"? Remember, it's
amature hour in my garage.
Cam in NJ
'74 Eldo Police
pax sine tedio
73 Eldo "19"