Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt
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TOPIC: Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt
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Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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The title says it all 
One of my first winter mods was installing an oil pressure guage. It now appears that I have stripped out the 8mm gallery bolt. Fired the bike up for the first time since installing a month ago and I now have a steady drip of oil from the gallery bolt. Can't torque the bolt down anymore than it already is.  Just looking for your opinions on what options I have. Can I drill out the 8mm hole to a 10mm and retap it? A new oil pan (what's that cost  )?
I had just installed my new HSR 42 today too |
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Last Edit: 2012/02/02 18:19 By moreland4.
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dvblair (User)
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Re:Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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Helicoil should do the trick. Local parts houses have them.
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Re:Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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For clarification, see gallery bolt below (item 1).
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Last Edit: 2012/02/02 19:07 By moreland4.
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Re:Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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the only issue I would have with the heli coil is that you have to drill out the hole to .397 and then tap, thats a lot of metal chips.
buddy it sucks to be you and you didn't get to try out the bike with the 42?
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Re:Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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yours is on the bottom that might not be as bad, mines on the side
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Re:Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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Have you tried some plumbers wrap?
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Re:Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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ultrastar wrote:
you didn't get to try out the bike with the 42?
Nope, but with Curt's ported manifold and the 42, she sounded wonderful
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Re:Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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See if you can retread it and put a 10 mm in it or find a longer 8 mm and put couple of copper washers. I had a similar situation at a different location and had to use a heli coil it was a very tight spot. |
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Re:Stripped Oil Gallery Bolt 3 Months, 3 Weeks ago
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moreland4 I don't know if you have done anything like this but if you haven't buddy get that bike jacked up as high as you can and make sure you drill out the old treads as perfectly centered as possible and the same with the tap and don't use a drill do a hand job bubba because if everything is not right you may have a sealing problem.
good luck on this journey
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