dont you just hate finding previous owners bodges and it costs you to fix them. :-( took front suspension apart for servicing and repainting to find track control arm bolt threads stripped out. Hmmm. Cant redrill and tap it out which would mean making a larger hole in the track arm. And threads that are not trusted. Cost .... £180 for an ally upright. Not happy and to boot westfield havnt got them. 2 week or more delivery. Gotta do the other side yet. :-( fingers crossed no more hidden bodges
Would a Helicoil insert work?
no thats the issue. They had put a helicoil in poorly. This had stripped out the threads even worse. Right mess. To think iv ragged the car round tracks too.
sounds like the previous owner didn't own a torque wrench 
I've just had a similar thing on the tin-top hubs - the threads for the brake caliper slides (rust is partly to blame though)
at least mine only cost me £75 in the end (£25 for a scrap hub and £50 for a new bearing) - ford wanted £290 just for the upright 
(and thats iron /
steel on a car they sold millions of)
[Edited on 22/2/2011 by mcerd1]
Could it be drilled and reamed to suit a plain bolt right through with appropriate washers/spacers etc?
....although thinking about it I'd not be comfortable unless it was replaced myself and by the time you've paid a machine shop to do the
work properly you'd probably be even on the cost of a replacement upright.
Should be ok to drill out and plug weld back up, then re-drill to suit tap size and then tap
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Originally posted by nick205
Could it be drilled and reamed to suit a plain bolt right through with appropriate washers/spacers etc?
....although thinking about it I'd not be comfortable unless it was replaced myself and by the time you've paid a machine shop to do the work properly you'd probably be even on the cost of a replacement upright.
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Originally posted by welderman
Should be ok to drill out and plug weld back up, then re-drill to suit tap size and then tap
quote:To me thats the scarest bit fo the whole thing if it had have been my car. (yet to to this job...)
Originally posted by :{THC}:YosamiteSam
To think iv ragged the car round tracks too.
I bought another banger last October and I'm still finding/ correcting bodges. It does have 16 previous keepers on the V5C though!
The list is pretty extensive and how it got through MoT that came with it is a mystery. Best one was the rear quill shaft hub nuts nothing like tight
and on one side a 20mm spacer missing meaning - only the brake disc/caliper stopping it from sliding in and out.
It's good fun to work on though being so simple from 1983 and guards red!
JC
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Originally posted by SeaBass
I bought another banger last October and I'm still finding/ correcting bodges. It does have 16 previous keepers on the V5C though!
The list is pretty extensive and how it got through MoT that came with it is a mystery. Best one was the rear quill shaft hub nuts nothing like tight and on one side a 20mm spacer missing meaning - only the brake disc/caliper stopping it from sliding in and out.
It's good fun to work on though being so simple from 1983 and guards red!
JC