i need TWO M6-1.0X40MM bolts and its 10PM in cali.

[BlackbirdM3]

Dude, that sucks. You might chase the threads out with a tap. My guess is that it won't do the trick, but it might. Your next choice would be to tap it out to the next larger size. Not a hard job, but one you want to be careful doing. If that fails, your next choice is to helicoil it.

If you can't get it figured out by Friday afternoon, give me a call and I'll come over and see if we can figure something out. I might be able to help tomorrow, but I think I'm booked.

Will

[Pantless Spency]

Dude, that sucks. You might chase the threads out with a tap. My guess is that it won't do the trick, but it might. Your next choice would be to tap it out to the next larger size. Not a hard job, but one you want to be careful doing. If that fails, your next choice is to helicoil it.

If you can't get it figured out by Friday afternoon, give me a call and I'll come over and see if we can figure something out. I might be able to help tomorrow, but I think I'm booked.

Will

if i can't figure it out friday sounds great will.
im going to take the water pump off and get a better look at the hole it's suppose to be threading into. i think maybe somone stripped it at one point before and now instead of a M6 it might be an M7. so i might give that a little try....

[BlackbirdM3]

Did you get this figured out or are we working on a water pump this evening?

Will

[Pantless Spency]

about to go outside and try some more hardware i picked up at the hardware store...
will report back soon

[Pantless Spency]

tried everything with no luck, took off the water pump and checked everything out not sure exactly whats going on... :/
might need to tap one to a 7 and the other to a 9.

[Pantless Spency]

sweet, will (blackbirdm3) came over and we got it all figured out thanks to his skillz, very much appreciated will!

[Gooch]

What was the problem and solution?

[Pantless Spency]

^^^ stripped M6 and M8 holes in block where you would fasten the water pump.
we re threaded the M8 to an M10 and im going to re thread the M6 to an M7.

[BlackbirdM3]

Most of the holes were full of crud. One of the M8s was totally lacking threads. I ran the tap all the way down till I couldn't hold it, it caught about 1 thread way down at the bottom. It looks like there had been a bolt that was red loctited in, but all that remained was a little red loctite in the bottom of the hole. The M6 will hold a tap fine, but the threads are chewed down too far for it to allow a bolt to torque down. It would be a perfect candidate for a helicoil, but without pulling the motor out so a drill could be used in a perfect straight line, there is really no way to do those. Taking it out to the next size bolt isn't ideal but it should work fine. All the other bolts tighten up nicely.

Will

[BlackbirdM3]

Did you get it put back together today?

Will

[Pantless Spency]

Yup got the water pump fastened just fine with the ultra blue rvt, I will be re assembling it tomorrow. Everything went smoothly! Thanks for the help will.

[BlackbirdM3]

Good to hear. I figured it wouldn't be a big deal to get it all together.

I spent a good 8 hours on the Datsun today, it only looks a little more together than it did yesterday.

Will

[Pantless Spency]

damn....
im sure it will be more than worth it once its together though :D

[b*saint]

Too bad you didn't helicoil it!

[Pantless Spency]

Too bad you didn't helicoil it!

we were thinking of going that way but it was a tight space and lateral not vertical, helicoil would have been hard to pull off to say the least.