[91 Loyale - I made a BIG Boo Boo, can anyone help]

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

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, You learned something didn't you?

Don't you hate it when that happens?

Anyway, all kidding aside, that really stinks. To answer your questions in order, kinda.

1) Is there a way of pulling the remaining bolt thread out of the camshaft housing?

 

1. This depends on if its sticking out or not there are 2 things you can do. If its flush, or sticking out, thats easy. get a dremel with a cut off disc and grind a slot in the bolt. Then simply use a screw driver to pull the screw out. If its in a little ways you will have to get an easy out. Basically its a reverse threaded tap and screw. you drill a hole in the center of the bolt, tap that hole reversely, then tighten the reversed screw into it and that loosens the screw you screwed it into.

 

2) Can I re-thread the stripped hole in the camshaft housing?

2. This rethreading depends on how bad you stripped it. Once I also learned something, don't pull the plugs on a hot aluminum motor. anyway I really didn't strip them, just cross threaded them a little. I chased the threads with a tap and it worked. Yours sounds worse like you worked on it a little. You might have to helicoil it which is fun, and mostly the "right" way. Now if you have a majority of them down and only one needs to be set you can do it the "ghetto" way. clean the hole and rough it up. *puts on armor* Get the bolt clean it, grease it and...... cover it in JB weld *ducks* shove the bolt into the hole with out the cover on. Let the JB weld dry, then carefully remove the bolt. That should leave threads in the hole, but careful tightening it back on then you put the cover back on, don't break it.

 

3) If I need to replace the camshaft housing, where is the best place to get one?

Find a local junk yard, pick and pull types are the cheapest. New ones from ru are a bazillion dollars.

 

4) Can I buy a torque wrench that goes down to 35-50 inch-pounds?

Goto Sears. I've got one thats on a 3/8s drive and I think I got it for this very purpose, or maybe something else head related when I rebuilt mine.

 

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?

Ok, One why are you doing this? You can remove the compressor and move it aside. Two, YES 100% This thing is R-12, but tell me if you do it, I'll get bank from the Gov and you get to pay "SUPER FINE" Tm. I personally wouldn't bother discharging it, removing it, recharging it. It will probably cost you somewhere in the $400-$800 depending on where you do it. Where to do it? Anywhere you can find to do it. Not a lot of shops still work on R-12s due to expense.

 

Well, good luck, have fun and make sure that is clean before you put in the new gasket. clean the cam carrier where it sit and the covers with a nice clean soft cloth. Also watch passing wires, I got one in mine and didn't notice till I got like 3 bolts in.

Phil

[91 Loyale - I made a BIG Boo Boo, can anyone help]

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.