Alright, well my threads were fine until someone gave me a broken torque wrench and my brother ended up overtorquing the number 1 bolt (in sequence) and stripping the threads in process. Anyways, I am buying the time-sert. After reading, yes the helicoil MAY WORK, but it seems that no one realizes you don't need EVERYTHING the $400 dollar kit. The cheaper kit for $68 SHIPPED FROM AMAZON. Has everything you need IMHO. You don't really need the alignment plate and hole guide if you know what you're doing it all. The cheaper kit is only missing those two components from what I've seen, for a D series you'll need the longer time-sert that is part number 10129. Which is only $1.75 I've just seen countless threads when I searched saying OMFG#&#&@&*#* it's like $400. Anyways, this will be a how to once everything arrives. So use cheap Heliocoils that may stretch? Or spend about double for something that will last. If you have to do it, do it right.

 

How about take it to a shop and see if they can fix it cheaper and PROPERLY?

 

That would require removing the engine block, which I don't have the necessary manpower to do and I don't want to remove everything and deal with more broken bolts and b.s. Explain to me why a time-sert isn't the proper way?

 

i believe he means having it professionally done. for time-serts you have to drill and tap the hole a good amount bigger than the existing hole. and if you do it to one it might as well be done to all. idk where you've seen it costing 400+ to put them in. it only cost me 275 with labor to have all 10 done by a machine shop

 

Oh. I meant for the Honda specific kit. Just for the kit is like 400. Machine shop wants $15 each for a helicoil, so I'd imagine similar for a Time-sert. Anyways, if I'm going to spend that kind of cash I'd save up for a b-series swap. I paid $1500 for my del slo and I'm trying to keep the engine for 2-3 more years before a swap. Time-sert seems way better than a helicoil, at least in theory and in reviews. I thought he was talking about getting the block retapped and using bigger bolts. My father is a master diesel mechanic by the way and will be stopping by if I feel the need. But I'm pretty mechanically inclined naturally and usually can do anything with directions lol.