mschein1

Was cleaning the IAC and stripped the bottom holes of the intake manifold. So went and bought a tap and die, I tapped to big of a hole. Am I now screwed? Where can I get an insert for m10 so that I can still use the m8 bolts?

waskillywabbit

iTrader: (-1)

Local industrial/fastener shop or auto parts store. Try your yellow pages.

:wabbit2:

mschein1

I already tried the auto parts store, all they had was helicoils. Do they make a m10 insert that you can thread the m8 bolt into?

j2the-e

Try timesert.com

mschein1

I called my local Fastenal and I think they have them, running over there after work today.

Crossing my fingers

mschein1

Ok no luck with a helicoil, ended up ordering a new upper intake manifold. Question, do I just need one new gasket for this? The old one I assume is not reusable correct?

j2the-e

Did you even check timeserts out? They have exactly what you would have needed to fix it. Why ask for advice and then ignore it?
http://www.timesert.com/html/bigsert.html
It's a steel gasket. Reuse it if it looks ok. Install it dry.

wyoming9

iTrader: (1)

:wabbit2: wow I thank you for this link!!!!

I had never come across them before. Some of these will be a great edition to my interesting goodies for fixing failures of thread repair jobs.

To bad the OP never checked them out it seems .

mschein1

I tried this exact same thing from my LOCAL fastenal..I messed up the threads bad. Got a used upper intake manifold for 30 bucks. I did not ignore anything.

j2the-e

Cool. Good deal!

Yotard

wyoming you may like these even better, Keenserts. I use these all of the time as a machinist, for thread repair or high use/strength threaded application, and highly recommend them.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#key-locking...nserts/=j6e162