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What's a helicoil & how did you keep the metal shavings, from drilling the hole, from getting into the sump? Tom '68 FB (Thumper) '70 Bug On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 13:03:05 -0400 Diane & Dave Burden <dburden@mindspring.com> writes: >Jim, > >>If the engine is together, I have a jig that pilots the tap drill >>and the >helicoil tap so that the stud ends up parallel to the >others. >>> As for the fix, I imagine a helicoil would be the answer, but what >>>size do I ask for? Dave wrote: >Thanks for the info on the helicoil size. I bought a kit with 12 >helicoils, the tap and insert tool. I figured I might have to do this >again at some point... > >Since the engine was still in the car I drilled the hole out with >a 1/4 inch drill bit, tapped it and screwed in the helicoil. When I >re-installed the stud and put the plate on, everything went together >fine. >Dave > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]