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The plate for my 203/205 doubler is stripped on the bolt holes that connect to the cross member. Got any good ideas on how to fix or repair???
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Question on stripped bolt holes on Doubler plate
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If I am thinking right can you drill out to next larger size, use longer bolts and put nuts on topside?
No faith in ye olde helicoil?
Additionally, do you need more support out back or have a bad engine mount?
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Never used one. I have good support for it. They were already stripping when I got it from the previous owner, I didn't purchase it from ORD, bought used. The bolts are fairly long so not knowing anything about helicoils I wasn't sure on installation of them.
I am planning on ordering gasket kits for both the 205 and 203 but wanted a fix for the plate before I went through all the work of pulling the doubler and putting all the new gaskets and seals in and re-assembling.
I am planning on ordering gasket kits for both the 205 and 203 but wanted a fix for the plate before I went through all the work of pulling the doubler and putting all the new gaskets and seals in and re-assembling.
Since I have the same plate, i will check the sizes and see if i have the stuff to helicoil it.
Hopefully, then you can just drag it over and we'll get it.
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Cool drag it over pull the Tcases replace gaskets, seals, blah blah, helicoils, all set.
Cool. Two hands better than one. When is this going down?
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I will order the stuff, I have a gift certificate to ORD to spend. I also just switched my work days for a few months so Thursday Friday Saturday off now.
If the plate is too badly damaged, instead of fixing it you could just use the factory adapter with mounts and add a support to the rear output of the 205 to support the weight, a couple of companies make them.
There are a lot of pretty easy ways to fix that:
drill out and tap for helicoil
drill out and tap for 5/8" bolt
drill hole deeper and tap for 1/2" and use a longer bolt.
drill and tap holes in the face of the adapter or the bottom of the adapter and move the mount point or build a steel foot to mount it.
I think you're better off mounting off the Doubler foot. I don't like mounts at the tail since they're often a long way away from another crossmember and chassis flex or impact from below will let a crossmember bend and thus break the drivetrain. I don't think the drivetrain breaks itself very often, I think we do it mostly with outside forces.
drill out and tap for helicoil
drill out and tap for 5/8" bolt
drill hole deeper and tap for 1/2" and use a longer bolt.
drill and tap holes in the face of the adapter or the bottom of the adapter and move the mount point or build a steel foot to mount it.
I think you're better off mounting off the Doubler foot. I don't like mounts at the tail since they're often a long way away from another crossmember and chassis flex or impact from below will let a crossmember bend and thus break the drivetrain. I don't think the drivetrain breaks itself very often, I think we do it mostly with outside forces.
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Thanks. I do want to keep the doubler foot as that is what my skid plate mounting conglomeration is built for. I will probably attempt helicoil first and if that doesn't work then drill and tap new holes in different spot.
