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Cusser
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 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:04 pm Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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Way back in the 1970s, my girlfriend got a home-made metal dune buggy when she turned 16. A few months later, the generator fan nut came loose, and with the home-made metal body there was no way to tighten that in-place. So the engine had to come out or back a few inches (can't remember). I do remember also having a tough time with her starter bolt, and it turned out that the "builder" had used an SAE bolt and nut there, the reason my 17mm wrenches didn't fit. And back then I only had metric wrenches....
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VW_Jimbo 
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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| What does the bolt head face say? |
It was the D bolt ... nothing on the bolt head. I believe it was this set I had ordered...
https://www.jbugs.com/product/9551.html |
Was just wondering. JBugs. You need type nothing more! Get a D bolt from the classified section. I have only seen soft bolts do what that one did. Never seen a stock was go bad!
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Snoopy1971
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:16 am Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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| VW_Jimbo wrote: |
| Snoopy1971 wrote: |
| VW_Jimbo wrote: |
| What does the bolt head face say? |
It was the D bolt ... nothing on the bolt head. I believe it was this set I had ordered...
https://www.jbugs.com/product/9551.html |
Was just wondering. JBugs. You need type nothing more! Get a D bolt from the classified section. I have only seen soft bolts do what that one did. Never seen a stock was go bad! |
Yeah I was like 2 weeks into my VW ownership career when I bought that bolt kit 5 years ago, and didnt know any better. Im not even sure why I ordered the bolt kit, but I thought "oh Ill use the new bolt instead of this old one" ... I guess thinking newer was better. Like I said, 2 weeks into my VW career and not knowing about Empi crap and Chinesium.
Now Im worried about my upper left bolt because that came from the same kit. I just put it in last year when I noticed (after 4 years of owning the car) that there was never a bolt there. Im going to get that bolt out and swap it for one from hone depot.
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Cusser
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:59 am Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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| Snoopy1971 wrote: |
| Now Im worried about my upper left bolt because that came from the same kit. I just put it in last year when I noticed (after 4 years of owning the car) that there was never a bolt there. Im going to get that bolt out and swap it for one from hone depot. |
I would guess that most suppliers would have that same bolt, JBugs does not manufacture it.
I suspect Gomer or Goober WAY OVERTIGHTENED the nut, ruining it.
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Bobs67vwagen
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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| If you buy a bolt from home depot get a grade 10.9 from the metric fastener section. That would probably be about the same grade as vw put in there originally. |
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Glenn
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 10:34 am Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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Get s standard hex head bolt and put a small metal hose clamp om the head. It will prevent the bolt from turning.
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Snoopy1971
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 10:44 am Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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| Cusser wrote: |
I would guess that most suppliers would have that same bolt, JBugs does not manufacture it. |
Ih yeah Im sure the same bolt is everywhere, Im nit putting the blame on Jbugs ... the blame goes to Empi
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I suspect Gomer or Goober WAY OVERTIGHTENED the nut, ruining it. |
Are you referring to the stripped D bolt I took out shown above? If so, Im the only one that ever tightened it. Put it in 5 years ago, tightened it down, I assume it was around 22 ft-lbs, cant get a torque wrench back there to check, didnt feel overtightened to me.
Took it off when I dropped the engine. Then I went through 2 iterations of mounting my starter to the back of my engine to run the engine outside if the car. Tightened it to 22 ft-lbs both times. Put it back in the car when this ordeal started 5 days ago. Looked fine going in. Its never been overtightened.
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Cusser
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 2:50 pm Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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Are you referring to the stripped D bolt I took out shown above? If so, Im the only one that ever tightened it. Put it in 5 years ago, tightened it down, I assume it was around 22 ft-lbs, cant get a torque wrench back there to check, didnt feel overtightened to me.
Its never been overtightened. |
Well, could be an inferior batch of steel....
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VW_Jimbo
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: Help With Stripped Engine Bolt |
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| Glenn wrote: |
| Get s standard hex head bolt and put a small metal hose clamp om the head. It will prevent the bolt from turning. |
Or you can grind off the one side to look like a D bolt. Do t over do it!
Heck I have seen those bolts held in by JB weld, bubblegum and tooth picks.
Or buy a used OG VW one for 8 bucks!
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1832087
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