Stripped crankshaft hole with new harmonic balancer bolt.

[rusted nuts]

Helicoil did the trick!

Was a tense hour as I left the harmonic balancer on the crankshaft while drilling and tapping to fit the coils. Cramped and hard to see, worried the whole time I was going to overcut the hole, but the bolt went right in afterward! Had my son use an old v belt with a crowbar to keep the pulley still while I torqued down the harmonic balancer bolt. Small victory with so much left to do on the truck but hell, I'll take it!

Good job.

 

[Camar068]

Glad to hear. thx for posting, good to know

 

[SirRobyn0]

Helicoil did the trick!

Was a tense hour as I left the harmonic balancer on the crankshaft while drilling and tapping to fit the coils. Cramped and hard to see, worried the whole time I was going to overcut the hole, but the bolt went right in afterward! Had my son use an old v belt with a crowbar to keep the pulley still while I torqued down the harmonic balancer bolt. Small victory with so much left to do on the truck but hell, I'll take it!

Yea good work. I had this happen with a Mr Gasket bolt when I did my timing chain. I just ran a thread chaser over it the crank, got another new bolt, applied lock tite to it and torqued it to 20lbs less than spec.