[V8] power steering pump front mounting bolts

[Ed Kellock]

Well, it looks like I'm all set.  I misjudged the bolt hole a bit... it's
30mm deep, but not threaded all the way down.  I ran the tap in as far as
it would go without going all monkey lad on its ass.  I had bought 35mm
bolts so I had to cut and grind them down, custom length style.  I added a
very thin washer on each just to hedge a bit.  Cleaned the holes really
well with brake cleaner and made the bolts blue and hit them with the
torque wrench set to 100 pound/inch.  Spec is 15 pound/feet=180
pound/inch.  When the torque wrench did its thing, I gave it a tad more
and they seemed to snug up nicely.  Going to let it sit until tomorrow
night for the rest of the reassembly.  It was 10pm already anyway.

I'm not sure this was any quicker than trying to remove the bracket from
the car and do the helicoil thing.  I wasn't really concerned about time
though... I didn't want to risk disturbing a/c lines and tranny cooler
lines.

Later,
Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Kellock [mailto:ed.kellock at msn.com]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:34 PM
To: 'q - V8'
Subject: RE: power steering pump front mounting bolts


I went out and bought a tap & die set today and ran the 8x1.25 tap into
the hole to clean it out, thinking that I would use progressively larger
taps to get up to the one needed for the helicoil.

I noticed that the tap went in a good bit further than I expected.  I
measured the depth of the hole, 30mm.  The bolts I removed were only 20mm
long and the bracket they go through is 5-6mm thick, so I was only getting
about half way into the hole.

This evening I went out and bought some 35mm long 8x1.25 bolts.  Tomorrow
evening I will attempt to remount the pump with these longer bolts and
some locktite.

Fingers crossed,
Ed


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Kellock [mailto:ed.kellock at msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 4:30 PM
To: 'q - V8'
Subject: monkey lads strike again


I removed the p/s pump from the 90 v8 yesterday to replace an o-ring on a
leaking X-cap.

I found that the two bolts that hold the pump in on the front were
overtorqued and came out with some threads in them.  So of course there
wasn't enough thread left in either hole to get them to bite.

I have a helicoil set that's the right size but I need a right-angle
drill.  I am looking but so far have some doubt about the size of them
versus how much space I have to work with.

The alternative seems to be to remove the a/c compressor to get the
bracket out of the car to work on it at the bench.

Anybody out there with any BTDT?

Thanks,
Ed



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