Bet no ones ever, ever, done this before...

[Kccv23highliftcam]

measured stud body

as 8.45mm took it as M8....



Guess I'll be keeping this one as M8 then.

Project stalls AGAIN AAGGHHHH!

[GreenV8S]

Selecting a bolt with the wrong thread is unfortunate. Your mistake was ignoring the warning signs when it was too tight to screw in by hand. If it won't screw in by hand, either the threads don't match or they need cleaning - either way, forcing it is the wrong answer.

[Kccv23highliftcam]

That's the thing, it started and ran down "OK", before tightening up. My "mistake" if you can call it that, was not securing the originals in a safe in my garage a year plus ago...

[GreenV8S]

[quote=Kccv23highliftcam]My "mistake" if you can call it that .../quote]

Getting the wrong bolt is unfortunate. Finding one so close to the right thread is doubly unfortunate. Those threads weren't stripped by hand, though. That damage would have taken a significant torque. The fact it needed that much torque to screw it in is the warning sign you missed and still don't seem to have recognised.

[Kccv23highliftcam]

Actually it's the wrong nyloc nut.

[GreenV8S]

That would make it a lot harder to spot.

[Kccv23highliftcam]

I don't suppose carb fitting studs do anything silly like lh tread into the inlet manifold??

[GreenV8S]

The thread on both ends pretty much has to be in the same direction, otherwise tightening the nut could wind the stud out.

[Kccv23highliftcam]

Yeah just some deranged rambling on my part prior to removal before resorting to a big stick.



OOT!!