I was driving down a local highway when i could feel something not right then under my hood i heard something smashing and banging aroundtil finally it gave way and flew up from under my car...I lost power almost immediatly then I cut the car off and rolled to a gas station of a nearby merge. I popped the hood and my f*cking balancer pulley came off -chuckle about now- anyway the bolt has sheered in half, half came out but the other half is lodged in the block, how the hell do i get it out if the shop drilled into it leaving no room to tap it? any ideas that arent retarded or a waste of my time i will take, i feel the biggest one will be do a h22 swap

Thanks for the time


Modified by confusion5 at 11:25 AM 5/7/2004

 

Are you saying that the shop drilled it out for you but they drilled the hole to large to tap it??

 

They drilled it out hoping it would break free and apparently either it didnt work or they drilled it crooked so they cant tap it

 

Sounds like your going to be doing that swap, or at least getting a new crank put in the motor. For the cost of that, you may as well do a swap if you don't want to do a complete rebuild. How many miles on the motor now?

 

I guess you could try a helicoil. The snout of the crank may end up snapping off though. If they drilled it and messed up all the threads your best option may just be to swap the crank out.

 

It's got about 120,000 miles on it

 

im wondering if they can weld the hole closed then drill and tap a new one.. just a thought because we have welded holes and such closed here at work on our diesel trucks