Sometimes you can try a longer bolt that may reach threads that are good and have not been used before with the shorter bolt. Also, can use as large a washer under the good bolt to spread the pressure out.
Is this just an oil filter gasket leak or is there something else that would pool oil around the oil filter?
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@opfor2 Worst case would be a new oil pan I think
Just post it man fk it. Fk wat they think.
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Look at the support you got here @OR VietVet lol
Well, ok, here goes. If you want to try and just rig it and know that if it does not work you will need a new oil pan, try this.
Match the length of bolt or just a hair shorter, and use the same size bolt but use a different thread pitch. For instance, if is an 8mm bolt and is a 1.50 pitch, use an 8mm bolt with a 1.25 pitch, or vice versa. You will have to force that cross thread in there and hope the bolt sucks down the plate and slows or stops the oil leak. That is why I recommended a shorter bolt if can. You are threading into aluminum but may have enough thread strength left to hold the bolt. May even go with a equal size fractional bolt and run that in there. If was me, I would just do a new pan but I am a thousandaire and not every one is able to afford the new pan all of a sudden or even a used pan. Also, if not mechanically inclined and don't have the "TOUCH" to feel what is happening when you try this, a shop can attempt but if was my shop, I would say, fix it right or not at all.
There....are you vultures happy now. I spilled my "hillbilly" fix for this. But, sometimes poor people have poor ways.
Match the length of bolt or just a hair shorter, and use the same size bolt but use a different thread pitch. For instance, if is an 8mm bolt and is a 1.50 pitch, use an 8mm bolt with a 1.25 pitch, or vice versa. You will have to force that cross thread in there and hope the bolt sucks down the plate and slows or stops the oil leak. That is why I recommended a shorter bolt if can. You are threading into aluminum but may have enough thread strength left to hold the bolt. May even go with a equal size fractional bolt and run that in there. If was me, I would just do a new pan but I am a thousandaire and not every one is able to afford the new pan all of a sudden or even a used pan. Also, if not mechanically inclined and don't have the "TOUCH" to feel what is happening when you try this, a shop can attempt but if was my shop, I would say, fix it right or not at all.
There....are you vultures happy now. I spilled my "hillbilly" fix for this. But, sometimes poor people have poor ways.
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Alright boys! Get him!
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Bah. Do what you've got to do. I am reasonably financially stable now. But I have not forgotten where I came from. I cut my teeth on 'fixes' like this. Do what you've got to do. Thanks for the suggestion OR VietVet!Alright boys! Get him!
