As you can see the rear tranny mount bolt holes are messed up bad. There are chunks missing and my fix didnt last. The front bolt is perfect and is basically holding the mount on to the tranny, the 2 rear are done as you can see. The mount lasted pretty good for 2 months when i just forced oversized bolts into the holes. Now those 2 are stripped and im running out of options. For one the tranny is an SI and its the only SI tranny i have so i dont want to ditch the tranny just yet. Swapping internals into a DX trans is tempting, but thats my last resort i want to see what i can do before i resort to that. I thought about JB welding in some bolts into the holes and sealing the sections with JB, but im not sure how long it will hold up. I know it can be welded back with alum. but i dont know anyone in my are that could do so for a reasonable price . So anyone have any ideas?

 

JB weld won't hold that, i can break JB weld with my fingers.. take it to a good welder, they should be able to weld new metal in there, and retap, and die it..

 

PM Del_slowest here


he just got a tranny busted like that

he had someone weld aluminum or somethit and redo it

ask him what the actually did

he can help you out

 

get a propane torch and some alumiloy rods from jc whitney, clean everything up and heat it up with the torch, use the alumiloy rod to fill in wherever its cracked.. i didn't really look at the pic to see what you would have to do but you can fix anything thats aluminum with those rods and it is what major shops use. it wont break or chip again. easy fix, like 40$ for the rods and you will have some left over

 

hmm i just PMed del_slow, and im pondering the alum rod with the torch idea...sounds too easy but i might just try that but il see what del slow says....

 

you will have to re-thread

 

you have to have it heli-arched. i think thats how you spell it. it's an aluminum weld. a machine shop should be able to do it for you, thats what i had done to one of the holes on my b16 tranny. just see what a taps you have that are the size or about the size of the stock honda bolts and then find some bolts. i have one honda bolt in mine and one american bolt b/c we didn't have the right size taps for metric bolts.

btw- check this out

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=900792

 

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i saw a infomercial about that stuff, damn it looked pretty damn cool

 

sick thanks for the info....

 

so anyone know more about this torch welding?? and how much would a shop charge to weld this stuff in???

 

i dont think propane would ever get hot enough to melt alum...u need acetaline probly.

 

its not aluminum it alumaloy

see for yourself. http://www.alumaloy.net/