Water pump bolt warning.
#21
Adding some thread is a sensible, practical solution in a situation like this, but when stretch bolts are involved, I would suggest that the OEM threads will have been rolled to form, not die cut. Die threading an extension in those circumstances would likely create some potential stress points that could result in in tensile or torsional failure on stretching. Not so good!
Bottom line, no apparent jag replacement was in near term view. And I didn’t like any of the ‘sturdier’ alternatives.
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Here, a practical issue too. I had to ‘bolt extract’ three of them. There’s also the issue of the stretchy bolts.
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I personally would think that the risk is small under those circumstances in the exceedingly unlikely event (for me) that I get one of these tiny head bolts off after the last gorilla haphazardly tightened it after the previous gorilla helpfully rounded it off.
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