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I have a stripped bolt hole in my flywheel and was wondering if anyone out there had been successful getting JB weld to hold 30# of torque?

Besides taking it to get it welded and retapped, anyone have any other suggestions? Helicoil is not an option.
 
I have fixed broken blocks and heads and even carbs but I never tried to put alot of torque to it but it is worth the try. You may want to test it on a junk part and see what happens?? Let us know what you find......
 
Im thinking its not gonna hold much more than 5 inch pounds of torque if even that, its glue thats all it is.
 
I honestly dont know how that'll go. My pops JB Welded his 5.0 in his boat back together. he cracked the block really bad on the water jacket. Now it runs fine. It may work or it may go horribly wrong. My dad got extremely lucky
 
Loctite makes all different type of compounds to hold that much torque.

http://www.henkelna.com/adhesives/loctite-6182.htm

I was having problems with my March pulley coming lose on the alternator and chose one of the Loctite adhesives and that sucker will not come lose for nothing. The adhesive ignores heat. Just look up on the website the compound in which fits your description of use .

NOTE: I got what I needed on the Industrial Assembly & Repair NOT consumer side.

I believe this what I used in my application. I got it around here somewhere.

http://www.henkelna.com/cps/rde/xch...tredDotUID=productfinder&redDotUID=0000000HWO
 
I know theres no 30# bolts on an auto flywheel so i,m guessing pressure plate bolts. Dont even try.Maybe drill and tap one size bigger.
 
Well I finally gave in and tool the flywheel to my machinist to drill and install a helicoil. It took the torque no problem.
 
That's good you got it fixed. I for some reason thought you needed some type of loctite to secure the bolt for some unknown reason. lol
 
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