I hear sobbing and see tears coming from a 5.0 Mustang lover's wallet.
Let us know how that works out for you.
Now (assuming you got the whole bolt out) would be a good time to pick up and install a helicoil.
Now (assuming you got the whole bolt out) would be a good time to pick up and install a helicoil.
It seem that you have shot yourself in the foot, because now a HeliCoil won't work - the thread sizes are wrong for a HeliCoil.
You will need to proceed with the larger bolt and hope that it isn't too big for the water pump...
It seem that you have shot yourself in the foot, because now a HeliCoil won't work - the thread sizes are wrong for a HeliCoil.
You will need to proceed with the larger bolt and hope that it isn't too big for the water pump...
This is amazing!!!! The Pro's 2 -vs- The Grimlins 10!
This is like watching those guys ski off a mountain while behind them there is a huge avalanche barreling down on them... yet, they seem to be having fun!
This predicament would be like Horror Movie on Steroids for me!
I'll eat a bug if
Hopefully this does not turn into a costly education. Let me offer one last suggestion as it seems my prior posts fell on dead ears. Loctite makes a chemical type of thread former. You put it on the bolt and in the bolt hole, let it set up and it forms a useable thread. Hopefully you didn't hog out the hole so large that the loctite won't work.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WSEUII/?tag=stangnet-20
I would try that over jamming an oversized bolt in.
There's a couple of things you can do here. One is find a stepped stud in SAE size and thread. Good luck with that one because they seem to be getting harder and harder to find.
The other thing you can do is buy a short length of STAINLESS all-thread and cut the smaller end yourself.
Thread-lok Blue, would a good addition to the threads going into the block with either of these options.