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Please Help Fast
Posted: June 5th, 2007, 2:01 pm
by Custom_V6_Limited_SE
Is this broken bolt hole for the tranny mount? This is a Protege tranny. Need answer as soon as possible. Thank you.
http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=5615691
Posted: June 5th, 2007, 6:27 pm
by atlantamx3
That is for the bracket for the 4th tranny mount.
Not good that its broken.
Pass on it or try to see if a metal shop can fix it... bit I wouldnt chance it, honestly.
Posted: June 5th, 2007, 8:49 pm
by Custom_V6_Limited_SE
I just got it today. I can and will return it. Hopefully I will fare better when I pick up the BP engine.
Edit: 500 posts woohoo.
Posted: June 5th, 2007, 11:28 pm
by PATDIESEL
Holy Moly, yeah you gotta have that bolt hole and it is not really fixable. Return it and get a new one.
Posted: June 7th, 2007, 4:15 pm
by Custom_V6_Limited_SE
Returned. Fewww. I'm really glad I noticed it and didn't find out in a month... The engine doesn't look pretty, but, it should once I get it cleaned up and built. Just need to make sure it doesn't have anything major that can't be fixed. BP with a turbo setup, here I come. Slowly but surely
Posted: June 7th, 2007, 9:36 pm
by Cy
It's cast aluminum...you'd never know what the alloys were..but it could've been welded and retapped...
We did up a 1972 Ferrari Tractor oil-pan for a guy that was cracked and hada blown out bolt hole...It was cast-steel (had to be heat-soaked in charcol first) welded then heat-soaked until it was cold...then milled out and retapped
Took about 6 hours @ $50/hour...that's like worst case senario...
What i saw in that photo...2 hours tops...but still cheaper to just take it back
:D