samneric

Thanks a lot Phil! Lots of great advice.... I'm off to Sears now with my shopping list Will let you know of progress. Steve P.S. The sad thing is I spent a LONG time and put in great care to clean up the cover and mounting surfaces of the camshaft housing before I put it back together so that compounded my frustration at messing up the bolt tightening

Hi All, I have been working on my girlfriend's Loyale and changed the camshaft cover gaskets because they were leaking oil. Problem is.... When tightening the bolts, I mis-read the inch pounds and used foot pounds instead . The consequence of this is that one bolt is now stripped (it spins either way) and another one quite simply snapped off leaving the thread in the camshaft housing. "Oh crap" says I, as a scary realisation dawned on me. Now I figure I need to pull off the camshaft housing and replace it following my little "mis-hap". My questions are thus: 1) Is there a way of pulling the remaining bolt thread out of the camshaft housing? 2) Can I re-thread the stripped hole in the camshaft housing? 3) If I need to replace the camshaft housing, where is the best place to get one? 4) Can I buy a torque wrench that goes down to 35-50 inch-pounds? 5) When disconecting the A/C Compressor to take of timing belts, do I need to discharge the system first and who can do that the cheapest? Thats it folks!, I sure would appreciate any help people can offer in my hour of need. Steve P.S. I 'm not sure what the engine type is, but it is an 1800 with 4wd. Wagon chassis.