Changing intake gaskets and a bolt is stripped

[darkcherrymetallic]

Hello everyone,

I have a 2002 supercharged gtp and this week I was changing my intake manifold gaskets for the first time. As I was re-installing everything I noticed a little yellow plug in the crevices below the alternator by the engine side. I cannot figure it out what it is. Today, I found another one or maybe it's the same one that I found yesterday in one of the crevices by the pully system. Since this is my first time changing the gaskets I am afraid that I may have to take everything back apart if these plugs are important. Can anyone tell me if the picture below looks familiar when doing a intake manifold gasket change? I hope that it is just garbage.

Thanks. Your help is much appreciated.

 

[Pepino]

Re: Changing intake gaskets

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[darkcherrymetallic]

Re: Changing intake gaskets

Hi again. I encountered a more serious problem when I installed my intake manifold bolts. I could get one of the bolts to go in and from the picture below the first two threads on the screw are bent. Since it only affects the first two threads can I use a tap to try to fix the threads in the hole or should I just drill out the first two threads in the hole. I have never done anything like this before. Any advice would be much appreciated. I don't want to make it worse so if it's doable I'm game. Otherwise, I can see if the dealership would do it. Can I drive my care without one intake manibolt whole open?

Thanks

 

[brandonl2000]

Re: Changing intake gaskets

So the threads on the bolts are messed up or the threads you screw the bolt into are messed up??

You could probably get away with one bolt out, but you might have a vacuum leak and it wouldn't be wise.

and lmao..what's a "manibolt?"

 

[darkcherrymetallic]

Re: Changing intake gaskets

Sorry, I was in a hurry to try to solve this. I tried using a good intake manifold bolt to see if the hole to the engine block was okay and apparently I couldn't get the good bolt to go in either. Hence, I am trying to figure out how to fix the threads in the hole.


For some reason my picture of the intake manifold bolt didn't get attached so I will try again. Observing from the bolt, it looks like only the first two threads in the hole has gone bad. I was wondering if anyone would recommend a tap tool to try to fix the hole's thread or should I just drill out the damaged threads in the hole. I am calculating that if I have to drill it out, it would be only the first two damage threads in the hole.

Thanks.

 

[brandonl2000]

Re: Changing intake gaskets

Sorry, I was in a hurry to try to solve this. I tried using a good intake manifold bolt to see if the hole to the engine block was okay and apparently I couldn't get the good bolt to go in either. Hence, I am trying to figure out how to fix the threads in the hole.


For some reason my picture of the intake manifold bolt didn't get attached so I will try again. Observing from the bolt, it looks like only the first two threads in the hole has gone bad. I was wondering if anyone would recommend a tap tool to try to fix the hole's thread or should I just drill out the damaged threads in the hole. I am calculating that if I have to drill it out, it would be only the first two damage threads in the hole.

Thanks.

ah i see. well, just link us to a pic using photobucket or something and that should do it.

but i have to laugh a little bit, not gonna lie. im king of stripping bolts and threads. but i would just use a tap and die, just take it nice and easy going into the threads and when you think youve got it try your bolt out. i don't think i would be drilling out anything that far internally.

i used a tap and die on the bolt holes in the LIM where the coolant hose bolts on and that was no fun at all, such a tiny spot to get at it, took about 30-45 minutes just using the tap. but it did fix it and it's all gravy now, i assume. i dont haz the car anymores.

 

[darkcherrymetallic]

Thanks Brandon. I don't actualyl have an intake manifold bolt stock in the engine block. Thank goodness. My problem is that I can't screw the bolt back into the hole because the strips in the hole must be bent. As evidence the first two strips of every bolt that I try to screw into the hole gets bent and warped. This gives me hope that the problem is way up at the beginning of the hole. If re-threading with a tap doesn't work, then I'll just drill only a tiny amount to cover at least 2-3 threads of the whole to remove the damaged threads there.

As for those yellow plugs that I mentioned above, I looked at the area where I found them and I believe that these yellow plugs are just to cover the hex screws along the side of the engine block.

Thanks.