The threads down in the center of my Q-Jet somehow got stripped and now the aircleaner stem won't tighten up in there. Do I tear down the carb and do a JB Weld/retap? Not sure where to start with this.

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D.R. Stevens
1984 Trans Am 305HO L69
1991 Firebird 305 L03

 

Damn man..how the hell did you strip those out! that must have taken some pretty serious effort

There might be enough meat in there to drill it to the next larger size stud, and tap it. I know you can with Holleys..would assume you can for your app too. If you cover the engine properly, removing the carb from the engine shouldn't be nessecary.

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[This message has been edited by Jester (edited June 16, 2001).]

 

I did this and threw all the messing around I dropped some shavings in the carb.Ended up buying a reman.carb.be careful.

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~mike~86 IROC-Z

 

I really have no clue how this happened! The car has been in the body shop getting a new front clip & fender, then to the mechanic for an alignment. They determined that the steering box was pretty much on it's way out cause they couldn't pull a steady alignment on it, so I had them replace that. I was putting my A/C back together yesterday, finished up and went to put the aircleaner back on and that's when I noticed this. So i'm thinking someone screwed up somewhere.
Not dismounting the carb, should I take the air horn off and all that fun stuff to tap this thing?



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D.R. Stevens
1984 Trans Am 305HO L69
1991 Firebird 305 L03

 

Dave i am just going to say you better give your car a 120 point to point inspection, you never know who was ****in with it and hey it's hellando so thats where i would start

 

clean the hole out with carb cleaner then
try loctite 601 to lock the stud. use a wing nut on top.

 

Think I figured out what happened-I took the stem out, looked closely at the threads both for the wingnut and inside the carb. The lower half of the wingnut threads were all mangled and stripped, the upper half fine.

So, looking at the other end, someone cut off a section to drop the stem lower for the good threads, and wound up cutting it crooked and messed up the thread down there.
It was basically ripping threads out of the carb with each attempt to tighten it, so I re-turned it the best I could on a grinder and wire wheel (not fun) and cleaned out the hole & threads in the carb. It threads in there now, probably into what's left of the carb's threads. I used locktite when I put it back in, hoping it'll hold.

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D.R. Stevens
1984 Trans Am 305HO L69
1991 Firebird 305 L03