Great, PMA Install- stator plate bolt stripped.

[padgett]

Doing the pma install and i was putting the backing plate on to put on the new stator/alternator, snapped off one bolt going into the crank case...it's beyond salvaging...i broke off a easy out in the hole

not my finest hour. i use a bar style torque wrench and i guess it wasn't sensitive enough to pick up 7ft/lb's. ended up over torquing it.

So outside of buying a new lower engine case and going through a rebuild, what are my other options

thanks guys

 

[DIRTY DOG]

you may take it to a mechine shop and see what they can do?

 

[padgett]

or f it all and weld it in place...thats where my mind is right now

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Could try to weld a nut over the broken bolt. Easy trick with a wire-feed mig.

 

[padgett]

Funny thing is I woke up and thought the same thing. Sleeping on it always works

Being that the plate doesn't hold fluid and has a low torque spec, welding in a nut should work...I just have to find a way to grind the bung down

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Funny thing is I woke up and thought the same thing...

That's the 'Vulcan-mind-meld' feature of this forum.

Doesn't always work right, though...

 

[padgett]

yup, did what we thought and it works well enough.