I put in my valve body the other day and while I was at it I changed to a deep pan (Ford). Well here is my problem......When I first got done I checked evrything for leaks, went through the gears a few times and rechecked the fluid level and everything was fine. Well I forgot to put the magnet from the stock pan into the new deep sump pan, so after putting it into the new pan I torqued everything down to spec and after going through the gears I had a leak near the back of the pan. So I again pulled the pan, and I wiped off the mounting surface on the bottom of the transmission housing cleaned the gasket and when I was retightening the pan bolts I stripped one of them. Well there are no leaks now, but one bolt is stripped. So can I just tap that hole a thread size larger (11mm) and call it good or am I in some serious ***** here

Needless to say if I would have remembered the damn magnet in the first place non of this would have happened.

BTW other than my ignorance the product is great

--Joe

 

helicoil

 

TTT

 

Joe,
Heli-coil or tapping it to the next size up is what I would do.

 

When this happens at the plant (more than you would think) we helicoil them, that's what I would do. You can get a helicoil kit at a good auto parts store.

G