M9 x 1.25 bolt souce needed for crank pulley/harmonic balancer

[joeyg1973]

If you take a look at my build thread you will see that I pulled apart my crank pulley/harmonic balancer to clean it up and to plan to replace the v pulley at some point with a serpentine one. To do this I had to cut out the rivets. Currently I am using M8 x 1.25 bolts to replace the rivets, but I am not exactly jumping for joy about them as they are a bit too loose in the hole to glue in there with green loctite. What I really want to do is find a source for M9 x 1.25 as these will fit nice and snug in the hole and the green loctite will work perfect. The problem is I can't find a source for the life of me for an M9 x 1.25 25mm bolt and nut either locally or on the internet. Anybody know where to find something like this? What's even more perplexing is that there are PLENTY of places selling helicoil in this size. Makes no sense. Also I would love to go with an M8 nutsert, but I believe that these are going to be too long for the hole.

Anybody know where to find an M9 x 1.25 mm25 bolt and nut? Got a better suggestion than what I am planning now?

Joe

 

[digger]

Got mine at Ace Hardware.

 

[joeyg1973]

They had M9??? You got lucky kid.

 

[Degnol]

I just saw some locally and I was suprised.....but they had them.

 

[cruiserhead]

They had M9??? You got lucky kid.

How many do you want?Did you try MSC or McMaster Carr?PM me if you can`t find any.

David

 

[joeyg1973]

So it turns out that finding M9 anywhere near me or online is damn impossible. Even cruiserhead's source didn't have them but claimed he could order them so he just got me 10m x1.25... anyway... It all turned out for the best because get this, the holes for the rivets are drilled 8.8mm... so I just threaded them with the 10m x 1.25 tap, screwed the 10m x 1.25 bolts in from the back and it worked perfect. I drilled out the pulley side to... some larger drill size which I don't recall right now, I will find that out later. I just need to locate 6 smaller 10m x 1.25 nuts as the ones I have now are freaking huge and while I could finagle the socket and the nuts so the socket will go all the way on the crank nut I would rather just get nuts that fit the situation better. I have enough of the socket on it now to turn it if I wanted too, but I want to make sure it goes all the way flat given the torque I need to put on it.