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Any ideas what to do with that? Just putting the truck back together after installing a "rebuilt" transmission. Put the bottom bolt in and tightened it up, then got up top and started the top bolt in, got a few threads in and put a 1/4" ratchet W/ 1/2" socket in there and started turning it, it took a bit to get it to even feel like it was tightening up, "here we go" I thought, but it just kept turning :/
It'll turn easy a bit, then start to try to grip, then it's easy again
This wasn't the only one. One of the bolts holding the trans crossmember mount to the bottom didn't look good, so I ran a tap through it, but the threads were just gone. Luckily I had a bolt just like it I'd picked up out at pickers with a nut on it, fit just fine, I pushed the bolt up in it, put some locktight on the nut and tightened it up. This starter bolt doesn't go all the way through tho
It'll turn easy a bit, then start to try to grip, then it's easy again
This wasn't the only one. One of the bolts holding the trans crossmember mount to the bottom didn't look good, so I ran a tap through it, but the threads were just gone. Luckily I had a bolt just like it I'd picked up out at pickers with a nut on it, fit just fine, I pushed the bolt up in it, put some locktight on the nut and tightened it up. This starter bolt doesn't go all the way through tho