[Vwdiesel] A4 engine mounts

[James Hansen]

Well that sucks Shalyn.
There are other style threaded insert repair devices available.  If there is
enough material in the diameter (so the hole you drill can be bigger), you
can get threaded inserts that look like the old aircooled case savers- they
are a thin piece of carbon steel pipe with threads inside and out. The
beauty of this is that they use the next larger tap to install, so you get
to use a standard tap to thread the hole.  In this application you need
three taps- taper, plug, and bottoming to get full depth blind hole threads
so you can screw the repair in, and high strength loctite it in place. Check
with your local machine shop.
Helicoils actually are stronger than the stock threaded hole- the force
distribution is supposed to be better in shear.

Roger should know. He knows everything. Roger?
-james

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
> On Behalf Of Tony and Lillie
> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 9:17 PM
> To: Shalyn Shourds; vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] A4 engine mounts
> 
> I dealt with this several times in teh shop, it will also happen to the
> transmission mount. I can't say that I remember what we did to fix
> them. but
> I can say I wish I weren't three hours away, I'd be over after work
> tomorrow..................................:(
> 
> Tony
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] A4 engine mounts
> 
> 
> > Just a bit of hard-won education for the group.  It's not terribly
> > difficult to strip out the threads on the passenger side "pendulum"
> > mount on a A4 TDI, which you have to remove to do a timing belt.  As
> of
> > tonight, I can say with relative certainty that a helicoil-style
> thread
> > repair insert will not take the necessary torque.
> >
> > It's going to be a long long walk to work tomorrow.
> >
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