I noticed a leak at one of the drain plugs in my left fork (which I just did SOOOOO much work on), and so bent down to tighten the nut. It spun to easily and before I knew it I had almost completely stripped the soft aluminum threads out. Needless to say the leak is... uh... worse. What do you recommend I do, tap the hole and find a new screw that is an approximate match? Has anyone had this happen to them? I exerted so little force, it must have been stripped just a bit from when I originally tightened it up.
As an aside, one header bolt on each side of my exhaust manifold is stuck beyond belief. Following advice from searching through the forum, I hit it with PB blaster, let it sit, hit it again, let it sit some more, then heated the nut up nicely with a propane torch. My vice grips still slid around like a snail on a slip-n-slide. I'm running out of options. Real hard to get in there as they are the innermost front bolts. Should I just cut through them with a dremel cut off wheel? ugh. :wtf:
thank you!
As an aside, one header bolt on each side of my exhaust manifold is stuck beyond belief. Following advice from searching through the forum, I hit it with PB blaster, let it sit, hit it again, let it sit some more, then heated the nut up nicely with a propane torch. My vice grips still slid around like a snail on a slip-n-slide. I'm running out of options. Real hard to get in there as they are the innermost front bolts. Should I just cut through them with a dremel cut off wheel? ugh. :wtf:
thank you!