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  1. August 19th, 2009 #1

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    Keep finding crap done wrong on my truck. Tonight I had to helicoil 2 holes. And since I was doing it, I did another 3 just to make sure I wouldn't have to go back later on them. When I took out the EGO sensor, I realized why I was having such a hard time with it. It was cross threaded, so tomorrow I need to pickup a thread chaser and fix that. When I had the head done at HbP, he had to redo half the valve cover holes, and found it easier to just helicoil all of them to 1/4-20. Seems every time I turn around, I find another stripped/cross threaded bolt somewhere. Highly irritating.

    On the plus side, quite a few months ago I became a helicoil expert doing it quite a few times at work. We use them on almost all holes, because they are stronger than tapping straight into titanium/aluminum. So doing this at home on the truck tonight was no big deal this time around! :lol:
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    I am still dealing with irritating 'other owner' stuff on the 84 Yota I bought. Be nice if people with wrenches in their hands and a vehicle to work on actually knew what they were doing sometimes.

    I have to replace all the gaskets in the front of my engine, about a 6 hour project since you have to take the radiator out, oil pan off, valve cover off, etc, just because the person who did it before me managed to butcher the gasket causing two WD40 size sprays of oil as soon as the engine RPMs go up...and this is after un assing a bunch of other crap work that got done.

    LaDawn gave me until the end of the month
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    Bummer.
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    Whether it REALLY was the previous owner or is my own fault, I always blame the previous owner.
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    greenramp previously posted:
    "Whether it REALLY was the previous owner or is my own fault, I always blame the previous owner."


    +1 :lol:
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    greenramp previously posted:
    "Whether it REALLY was the previous owner or is my own fault, I always blame the previous owner."


    LOL, I like that but I bought my truck new... I guess I can always blame Ford
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    TELL ME ABOUT it. the PO of my truck completely screwed the motor. and i've been fighting this stupid BS for two years now. hopefully i'll have everything sorted out (finally)this winter!
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    Ace previously posted:
    "LOL, I like that but I bought my truck new... I guess I can always blame Ford"

    Well, for a new factory truck, you have the "Monday or Friday Truck" excuse...
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    Speedwagon previously posted:
    "Keep finding crap done wrong on my truck. Tonight I had to helicoil 2 holes. And since I was doing it, I did another 3 just to make sure I wouldn't have to go back later on them. When I took out the EGO sensor, I realized why I was having such a hard time with it. It was cross threaded, so tomorrow I need to pickup a thread chaser and fix that. When I had the head done at HbP, he had to redo half the valve cover holes, and found it easier to just helicoil all of them to 1/4-20. Seems every time I turn around, I find another stripped/cross threaded bolt somewhere. Highly irritating.

    On the plus side, quite a few months ago I became a helicoil expert doing it quite a few times at work. We use them on almost all holes, because they are stronger than tapping straight into titanium/aluminum. So doing this at home on the truck tonight was no big deal this time around! :lol:"

    I had the same issue with my truck. Some idiot put metric bolts in standard drilled holes on my front dif...it leaked and filled with water. All the holes were stripped. I had to have the dif pulled out, cleaned, and pretty much rebuilt.
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    Medic-5150 previously posted:
    "I had the same issue with my truck. Some idiot put metric bolts in standard drilled holes on my front dif...it leaked and filled with water. All the holes were stripped. I had to have the dif pulled out, cleaned, and pretty much rebuilt."

    Easy enough to do as so many vehicles use a combination of metric and standard, but if the bolt doesn't go in easily, hey , maybe it isn't the right one. No big mental leap there! Too bad some people can't even make the small mental leaps...like across a synapse...

    One of the reasons to just not toss bolts you take off, but to keep them in a nice neat area...or make a cardboard template for them. I have known too many people who work on stuff that do this and it always involves many needless trips to the auto store or hardware store to find the right bolt...I refuse to work with people that do this...
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  11. August 21st, 2009 #11

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    yep my ex roommate learned it the hard way from borrowing my tools, lose any and its done. I even told him to put the tools in a box with all the bolts and nuts he took off so they wouldnt get lost... did he listen.... nope and he never used my tools again. Ive never lost a single pice of my tools that i got back in 00 mainly cause i dont lend them out. My motto, they dont leave the garage.
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