RE: Stripped out engine mount stud..Complete

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

Good to hear you had success.  I have to get around to doing both of mine
sometime, hopefully before either stud strips out.

Did you use oil or anything like that to keep the drill cool?  If you
haven't tried it before, you would be surprised at the difference it makes
when drilling metals.

My local True Value hardware store stocks a great selection of metric
fasteners, including class 10.9.  You might try them if your bolt strips.
OTOH, you may have nothing to worry about.  I guess it depends on how hard
and how often you kick it down.  If you're anything like me, that would be
all the time, but with a 1.7, you kind of have to do that just to make it
go...

Aaron
'82 Scirocco
'70 Beetle
'87 Jeep Cherokee 4.0
'81 Honda CX500-dead


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Captnbr@aol.com [mailto:Captnbr@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:58 PM
> To: aaron@makuta.com; scirocco-L@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Stripped out engine mount stud..Complete
>
>
> Well, I am all done with my repair.  hERE is what I did.  I
> sawed off the old
> stud with a hacksaw, that was fun let me tell you it took
> almost 2 hours.
> The metal in that stud that they used is something fierce.
> Make sure you
> have nice sharp drill bits or you'll get nowhere.  Drilling
> was hard, I had
> to use the weight of the car on the drill so I could give it
> enough pressure,
> I had my dad lower the car onto the drill very slowly. The
> bolt I used is
> M10-1.50x30mm. I went around to a few stores and the best
> grade I could find
> was class 8.8, I could not find any higher anywhere so we
> will see how long
> it lasts.  I dropped the bolt in from the top and used a
> lockwasher to hold
> it inplace so I could tighten it.  Took it for a test drive
> and all seems
> good,  the engine is no longer floppin around like
> a......uhhhh......ya know.
>
> Brian 86 16v
> <http://members.nbci.com/captnbr/captnbr>
>
> <http://hometown.aol.com/captnbr/myhomepage/auto.html>
>


--
Email LIST problems to: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org. To unsubscibe send
"unsubscribe scirocco-l" in the message to majordomo@scirocco.org