(SOLVED!!) Stripped out steering rack bolt hole! Need help ASAP!!
- Thread starter Chibu
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- #22
Are we sure it's an M10 tap? The bolt head is 17mm, won't we be looking at an M14 tap?
JunkCrzr89
Competent Ignoramoose
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- #24
My man! Nothing like a nice chart for some added assurance amirite?
JunkCrzr89
Competent Ignoramoose
These would be bolts to JIS specs however, meaning small heads. I think he needs an M12 tap.
JunkCrzr89
Competent Ignoramoose
Good point
ramangain
Clarksonian disciple
That's a Superleggera/GT3RS bolt. Mass removal to save weight
It would seem that a caliper, bolt gauge, thread gauge, and/or an assortment of nuts in known sizes, might be useful here...
An alternative, might be, to find a printable chart, something like this:
An alternative, might be, to find a printable chart, something like this:
nukegoat
Should have bought a Jeep
Tapping it in place sucks because you can't ensure you remove all the metal flakies and you don't want them in the spool valve.
Remove the rack.
Remove the rack.
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- #33
Dun dun dunnnnn, yeah I thought about that but idk, I think maybe we'll wing that. We're going to bring someone who (fully) knows what they're doing tomorrow to tap the hole. Maybe they'll have a magnet/magnetic tap. Or maybe we can magnetize their tap.
nukegoat
Should have bought a Jeep
Bad ideas
Step-by-step instructions here:
forum.ih8mud.com
How To: Replace your own steering rack
Is there anything with the motor mounts worth replacing while doing this job? The mounts themselves if they've never been done
forum.ih8mud.com
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- #38
Well as my ****ing luck would have it, the dumb **** that we called to tap the hole was tapping the wrong ****ing hole. I stopped holding the hand of this grown man (whilst he's doing a job that he's meant to be doing for a living) for 2 seconds and he completely screwed up, and then he didn't realize his error at all and stormed off in anger because we "wasted his time". Now it's 3 hours later and I just tried my hand at tapping the hole and it's actually super easy and there is plenty space to tap the actual hole. Sadly we don't have the correct tap (we have a wide mouth tap but we need a narrow mouth tap so that I can re-thread the top of the hole) and we're about going out to find it. This is exactly why I love this site (and all you legends on it), and this is (hopefully) going to re-iterate to my dad the value of DIY work. I explained to the guy where the hole was, I fricking scraped my hand on the frame (and cut myself) just to show him where it was, and he still messed it up smh. Well I'm ranting now, will update. Dare I say...cheers?
Just pull it out as already mentioned
