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Old 10-22-2008, 01:55 PM
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I don't have any first hand experience with this innards of this motor, but in any situation where you're considering using longer bolts, you must do two things first:

- Make sure the hole has more than room to spare. A small length of wire poked in the hole will confirm this. You really, really don't want the bolt to bottom out.

- Make sure that the bottom of the hole isn't facing something moving that a longer bolt might hit. That will be even more fatal.

Also, using a mixture of correct bolts and slightly longer ones will probably cause the next mechanic to make a mistake if (s)he's not expecting it.

-CTH
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