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[DSM BLUE TURBO]

I was doing my injectors today..And on the middle bolt..in the rail.. I think i stripped the threads. Now the 2 side bolts are in place nice and tight. But as of right now, there is no middle bolt. It seems tight enough, but I dont want to risk driving it at all. IT IS MY DAILY DRIVER! I need a car. Will it hold? and ideas on what to do.....??? HELP!

 

[95tsiawd11s]

My friend and I were lucky, we bothe broke a bolt, and drove with only two bolts on the fuel rail and there was no leak. You may be lucky and have no leak. Try it. If you don't have a leak, don't forget about it and not fix it. I would tap the hole to fit a biggerr bolt. The only bad thing is you might have to take the intake manifold off in order for the tap handle to be able to make full complete turns. I hope that helps.

 

[DSM BLUE TURBO]

it's not leaking.. but i scared to push my car hard.. any other ideas...

 

[NJGSX96]

Can you retap the threads or did they completely pull out leaving a bigger hole?

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

One time I bolted the rail w/o one of the insulators and it leaked all over the place and caused 1 of the o-rings to shred.

 

[DSM BLUE TURBO]

I'm going to have to try tomorrow. It's starting to rain =l

 

[pneumo]

Try a thread repair kit from the local auto parts store. It's basically two part epoxy that goes in the hole, plus some anti stick stuff that you put on the bolt and thread it back in to reform the threads. So far it's worked on the valve cover bolts.