During the process of changing my cam i stripped the head of the torx bolt. Tried to use a easy out to get the bolt out...drill broke inside the bolt and wouldn't budge. So i tack welded a bolt to the head of the stripped bolt it started coming out...until the head of the bolt snapped off! I ended up drilling the bolt out but in the process i got off center and drilled the threads out of right half of the hole. What can i do besides taking it to the machine shop so they can fill in the hole and re drill it? don't really wanna pull the motor out the truck.

 

Heli-Coil

 

Thought about that but not sure if the Helicoil will have the bolt centered where I need it the hole I drilled is to the right not center

 

Only thing that comes to mind would be putting the plate back on and use it as a PILOT for the drill.

 

Anyone know if I can fill the hole with jb weld and tap it after its fully cured?

 

You have a picture of how bad it is? Which hole/bolt was it?

 

I'll have to get a pic when I get home but the bolt is basically drilled in half. When I took out the bolt there's about 1/4 of full thread on the bottom of the bolt the rest is 50% of the bolt

Edit- this is before I cleaned the hole out. There's shavings in the pic.

 

Thats ugly, know this is kinda old but did yiu end up fixing it???

 

I got lucky with it! The oversized hole was the exact size i needed for a heli coil to i drilled it all the way and tapped it for a heli coil. It's holding great