Jsiff
Newbie
Hello,
Picked up a 99 2WD Tahoe recently, went to change transmission filter and gasket on pan. Everyone knows these are supposed to be snug, bout 120 inch pounds at MAX. well, 1 of the 16 bolts snapped in half. I then used an extractor bolt to remove the broken bolt, and while keeping it center, it made contact w/ corner of pan, and as you can see... chipped the pan. Now luckily this is only 1 bolt out of 16... i am thinking that I could maybe get away with a good gasket and 15 snug bolts? or I could attempt to tap the internal thread for the bolt, and see if it would snuggly bite even with that corner chipped out... Nonetheless not an ideal situation... I'm decently mechanically inclined, but if it comes down to having to pull a whole tranny or replace due to this one error, I will not be able to do that.
any advice or input is appreciated. Thank you.
Picked up a 99 2WD Tahoe recently, went to change transmission filter and gasket on pan. Everyone knows these are supposed to be snug, bout 120 inch pounds at MAX. well, 1 of the 16 bolts snapped in half. I then used an extractor bolt to remove the broken bolt, and while keeping it center, it made contact w/ corner of pan, and as you can see... chipped the pan. Now luckily this is only 1 bolt out of 16... i am thinking that I could maybe get away with a good gasket and 15 snug bolts? or I could attempt to tap the internal thread for the bolt, and see if it would snuggly bite even with that corner chipped out... Nonetheless not an ideal situation... I'm decently mechanically inclined, but if it comes down to having to pull a whole tranny or replace due to this one error, I will not be able to do that.
any advice or input is appreciated. Thank you.
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