Head bolt repair kit

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0040B37C-8A9D-4487-96F3-047ECDDF37D3.jpegDone my first ever block repair this week when I was home. I used the timesert kit and it was well worth the money imo everything went super smooth thankfully. Since the motor was in the truck still I ended up using a ratchet wrench and a ratchet and socket to drill tap and install it took longer but got the job done anyways! I only did the driver side as it was the side that stripped
If anyone needs the kit I’ll rent it for a decent price just buy your own inserts I done mine in a day
 

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Looks like a handy kit to have if you need it. I hate having to buy specialty tools that you’ll only use once. But how exactly did those threads get stripped? Must be a common thing if they produce a tool just for that.
 

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Was this a head bolt or valve cover bolt? I'd imagine a steel bolt in aluminum and it welded itself in?
 

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Looks like a handy kit to have if you need it. I hate having to buy specialty tools that you’ll only use once. But how exactly did those threads get stripped? Must be a common thing if they produce a tool just for that.
I have heard this is a common thing if you use the Fel-Pro bolts. But ARP doesnt have this issue?

I used Fel-Pro when I did the head gasket on my 5.3 last month, no problem. I think its the TTY bolts getting over-stretched, and pulling threads on the way out.
 
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The truck had the motor rebuilt prior to me getting it. Dude stripped out the cam bolts and thoughts was maybe he over tightened them. But my mistake was after the top end build the valve spring broke and trashed the head so now the heads have been off the aluminum block 3-4 times and they recommend doing this kit to the whole block after the first 1-2 times removing the heads because the aluminum threads get brittle and steel bolts with aluminum blocks don’t really go that well like above it kinda welded the bolt to the threads when we went to redo the motor bolt went spongy before ever hitting torque spec and pulled the threads right out the block. But yes it does suck spending 650$ on a kit I used one day one time and hopefully will never need again but for any of the forum guys who might run into this issue and was like me and strapped for cash I’ll rent this kit out pretty cheap to help someone out and attempt to make some of my money back off it
Looks like a handy kit to have if you need it. I hate having to buy specialty tools that you’ll only use once. But how exactly did those threads get stripped? Must be a common thing if they produce a tool just for that.
 
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Was this a head bolt or valve cover bolt? I'd imagine a steel bolt in aluminum and it welded itself in?
It was the main head bolts really only the bottom right closest to the fire wall but I done that whole side of the block just to be safe
 
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I have heard this is a common thing if you use the Fel-Pro bolts. But ARP doesnt have this issue?

I used Fel-Pro when I did the head gasket on my 5.3 last month, no problem. I think its the TTY bolts getting over-stretched, and pulling threads on the way out.
I used new gm bolts from Texas speed I really wanted to get arp bolts but the budget diddnt allow for it sadly
 

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