9t3country
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- Iowa
(did search, but couldn't find any info for drilled hole options)
so I'm on the home stretch of my APN header install, just finishing tapping the threads & throwing the new one on-patting myself on the back thinking of how proud my wife is going to be of me..until- what?, my tap won't go into the last stud hole?? What I originally thought of as a just a missing stud turned into a broken one deep in the head -(stupid)
..so, I center drilled all the way through the broken stud with the biggest bit (15/64) that the firewall & angle drill would let me, PB Blasted in the hole & that's where I'm at. So whats a good next move? (here's what I'm thinking
1. try Eazy-Outs, using extreme caution not to break them
2. use progressively bigger taps & work my way up to the one I used (3/8-24 I think) for the rest of the holes
3. Figure out a way to use a HeliCord (can't get the big bit (27/64) back there though, unless I can find a short one somewhere?)
4. try Eazy-Outs, using extreme torque until something gives
5. bolt on the APN like nothing happened!
any advice would be greatly appreciated - thanks!
so I'm on the home stretch of my APN header install, just finishing tapping the threads & throwing the new one on-patting myself on the back thinking of how proud my wife is going to be of me..until- what?, my tap won't go into the last stud hole?? What I originally thought of as a just a missing stud turned into a broken one deep in the head -(stupid)
..so, I center drilled all the way through the broken stud with the biggest bit (15/64) that the firewall & angle drill would let me, PB Blasted in the hole & that's where I'm at. So whats a good next move? (here's what I'm thinking
1. try Eazy-Outs, using extreme caution not to break them
2. use progressively bigger taps & work my way up to the one I used (3/8-24 I think) for the rest of the holes
3. Figure out a way to use a HeliCord (can't get the big bit (27/64) back there though, unless I can find a short one somewhere?)
4. try Eazy-Outs, using extreme torque until something gives
5. bolt on the APN like nothing happened!
any advice would be greatly appreciated - thanks!