Apparently I Fugged up... Fixed it..? Thanks for ideas.

[centexk5]

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This is the only acceptable fix that will give you peace of mind and guarantee burnouts.

I’d personally try to retap it and see how that works before drilling out larger and going through all that.

 

[shady]

If I had the money, that would already be in it, with a Magnuson to top it off lol.

 

[shady]

I would run a tap in them for the correct metric size then put a bolt in them and see if the threads will hold to torque to spec.

This is what I did.
I borrowed a tap from work, and tried it.
It was hard to get started but it worked.

I did get some rings of thread out of em, and there's spots down it there I'm not excited about.

But torque spec is 35ftlb.
I ran em all to 45 with spacers so it was holding at the depth it will be with trans on.
All felt good. It's on the stand now and holding well.

 

[shady]

Found my fug up too.

The dark bolts are the ones that were in a bag labeled trans.
The light ones were in my spare bolts box left over from the swap.
If you look where the discoloration is, vs the trans thickness, you can see that these were probably the originals.

 

[Babaganoosh]

Nice save

 

[shady]

Upon closeup, I definitely lost a few threads. And I couldn't get pics, but I seen a few farther back in that didn't look great.
All holding.

I left it loose but attached to the hoist, and pushed down on the water pump just to verify.
Didn't break anything lol.


Thanks again for bouncing ideas.