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

[Pantless Spency]

I'll see if I can find you some and bring them to your house. k?

Hell yeah come on over.

[slammin.e28]

long story short i am fucked because i need two M6-1.0X40mm bolts for the water pump on my E21. is there anywhere where i can get some at this time of night? or is there anywhere simple i could pull two from my e30. i need HELP. -__-

I'll see if I can find you some and bring them to your house. k?

[BlackbirdM3]

Sweet, now go get about 6 cans of engine degreaser and hose the filth off the motor. It will make life much easier finding leaks ect.

Next to get the e30 back on the road.

Will

[Pantless Spency]

shes runnin real well :D
drove her up to st helena and back and not once did it go past the 1/2 tick mark :)

[BlackbirdM3]

Too bad you didn't helicoil it!

The good news is that if the motor ever comes out, it can be helicoiled, and it will be an easy job. Its not something I'd want to try to do in the car however. The odds of getting the hole crooked are way too high.

Will

[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.

[b*saint]

Too bad you didn't helicoil it!

[Pantless Spency]

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

[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]

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]

Did you get it put back together today?

Will

[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

[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.

[Gooch]

What was the problem and solution?

[Pantless Spency]

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