My buddy has a GSR block, but two of the tranny bolt holes are stripped. And he doesn't really know what to do now. I was thinking about retapping the holes, but wouldn't that call for bigger bolts?

Any suggestions?

 

time-serts or helicoil

 

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So if he was to helicoil it, it would still be able to reuse the old factory tranny bolts?

 

with the proper kit,yes

 

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Yup. Permacoil kits will work too.

 

I see so I guess either one of those methods is going to be the choice then. Just out of curiousity, heli-coil, timesert, etc do they last pretty long or is just temp fix? I was actually thikning about tapping it to use with bigger bolts and into SAE thread instead of metric.

 

If done properly, thread repair kits are a permanent solution.

 

Definently get the repair kit. Honda sells them, I install about 4-5 a month in my dealership.

 

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Oh really, how much do they usually run for? Yeah I'm leaning towards getting myself one of those repair kits now.