Re: [alfa] Re: 164 Tensioner stud sourcing?

["Gwynne W. Spencer" <gwynnes1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"I gotta ask what the hell were they thinking?"   It wasn't the engineers 
who were choosing the specific size, the accountants or the stock clerks 
were thinking "What the hell are we going to do with all those 7 mm bolts 
we accidentally over ordered last year"

Gwynne Spencer

At 08:52 PM 7/30/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Karl-
>
>Where are you at?  I have a 7x1.25 tap and die you can use for the cost of
>shipping.  Of course I'll need them back.  Incidentally, I'm working on my
>rebuilt heads from IAP and found that several of the cam cover threads were
>stripped in the head.  You won't guess the size?  Yup, 7x1.25.  Sometimes I
>shake my head at the thread choices that Alfa made on several applications.
>Being a mechanical engineer myself, I gotta ask what the hell were they
>thinking?
>
>Anyone know if a 7x1.25 helicoil exists?
>
>-Lalo
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