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Old 07-07-2013, 02:14 PM
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Great tip

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Originally Posted by inkblotz View Post
Side note to keep shavings from dropping in liberally coat the tool with grease so as the tool cuts the threads the shavings stick to the grease. A tech at Porsche showed me that trick many years ago when I threaded in the wrong sized spark plug. Then followed it up with a Helicoil.

Mark
I've heard of using oil. Great advice. I just rebuilt top of injection pump. One of my torn up thread shavings from the prechamber had wedged itself on the backside of the 32 tooth nuts. It dropped into the pump and was hard to retrieve.
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