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Originally Posted by JimmyL
IDoes the motor mount have to be undone and the motor jacked up? The guy that just did my front end work and replaced the mounts said that the main bolt was stripped out, but they put it back in anyway!  He jammed a torx bit in it or something, and it did look rather round. |
A totally reasonable justification for doing it yourself if I ever saw one.
Also, with the oil cooler lines, when you are replacing rather than removing you have a different paradigm. Cut the stupid hose/pipe right off if you are going to throw it out anyway. If you are worried about filings from the saw getting into the oil filter, use a vacuum or crimp the line flat where you cut it. If the fitting screws out of the filter, so what? Let it. Then remove it from the scrap cooler line on the bench. I know you can do it Jimmy!
my bad, I said cooler before when I meant filter. But a somewhat similar approach still applies. You don't want to trash the cooler, so if the lines are stuck on, cut them and work with the cooler on the bench. Better to trust yourself than some mechanic that would push a stripped bolt back in.