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Engine hanger removed for rehab. I'm going to drill tap and use an insert to repair this hnager. The thread in the aluminum casting are buggered and the bolt wobbled sufficiently in the mount to make sure that the threads weren't just damaged but were well buggered. The bolt shown in the lower right of the photo is what I found during dissassembly....Too long a bolt had ben used and there were a stack of washers used to accomodate this. Unfortunately a few more washers would have been need to properly accomodate the too long bolt. I think the bolt was tunred a few turns past bottoming out and the caused or cintributed to the thread biggarizatio in the aluminum casting.
I could of course just replace the hanger ($340) but for ~$140 I will be purchasing a nice set of metric taps and dies and an insert and use this opportunity to learn to use them.
A simpler quicker fix would be to drill and tap the hole and use a bigger bolt....This would probably also require drilling out the hole in the motor mount alittle bit and using a bigger bolt. I am trying to avoid introducing off standard fasteners so am confortable with this approach.
A hanger is prolly availbale at a junk yard bt then I would be spending time I don't really have and also still would be without taps and dies....Thnaks for listening.....
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Rob M
Norwich, VT USA
1980 240D Euro delivery 4 speed manual silver/blue
~160K miles
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