Here's a few tricks to get you out of trouble on your next 4x4 offroad expedition in the rental car.
1:00 machining a mock up crankcase drain hole for demo purposes
4:00 how to destroy threads like a Dutch farm boy
6:00 how to drill and tap a hole using only a bolt
8:30 how to make a gasket from copper wire
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HYDRAULIC TESTING OF THE PLUG VIDEO here: https://youtu.be/_5LWcTVeWR8

By AvvE

14 thoughts on “Manly-man skill: repair stripped threads with nothing but a bolt, a wire and a flat bastard”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars RedDogForge says:

    every man should own a lathe, a benchtop mill, and a surface grinder, a welder, an oxy acet rig, and a metal cutting bandsaw and learn the basics

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Andrew Sinkinson says:

    File this away in a hope ya never need bin

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars BrokenLifeCycle says:

    I recently twisted out an air bleed bolt (gave it too many beans) Thankfully, nothing stripped, but I needed a new way to seal the replacement bolt. Your video came to mind in making a makeshift copper washer.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! R🥭M says:

    Little did I know that 7 years after I first watched this video that the knowledge you passed on would save the day. I was working on some equipment today and there were 4 blind holes that needed to be cleaned out and re-threaded. The taps of course were missing from the set and it's a Sunday. But by God I had grade 8 bolts and a angle grinder.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars M D says:

    Here I sit, broken hearted. There were some threads, but they departed. It's up in the rails, the location's a sin. Me too big to reach, I need a Nguyen. She went halfway in and she started to curse, and my 1/2 inch Milwaukee made it much worse. I walked 'er back out with a jack and a pipe, 7 extensions and a big fuckin snipe. Now there is one bolt where there used to be dual, as I browse AvE on my Powerfist stool. I won't be defeated by the bolt-hole of lore, I'll weld that prick in there if the hole won't restore

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars mike hep says:

    A million ways to skin a cap but here are 2 faster ones that don't work as well but we'll get you out of a jam….

    1) Heat the nut

    Get some solder on it

    Thread it in… done

    OR

    Wrap the nut with copper wire (like an 8" piece of telephone wire) that will act as a thread rebuild and crush washer all in one.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars mike hep says:

    100 psi is baby shit.

    That could take 5000 psi with little if any leakage NO problem.

    And even if it did leak a bit, teflon or anti seize would end the leaking.

    At least until you could get yourself to a second or first world country.

    I have seen dodgier connections on 3500 PSI scuba tanks.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Columbus Racing Shop says:

    This is here for Honda oil pans..

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Connor O says:

    Saw this video about 5 years ago and just last week I stumbled into a situation where I needed to use it. Thanks uncle bumblefuck👍🏻

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars peacefrog0521 says:

    Holy cow – I’ve actually been to Tianjin, in fact it was about a year before this video was released. I don’t believe it was the “New Economic Development Zone”. Also not sure if it was near the huge major explosions occurred later.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars john potter says:

    I know this videos old but I think it has the best AvE dialog I've heard

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Technical Items says:

    Mercedes 240d diesel spin on fuel filter. Always need an aluminum crush washer. Can’t be bought in parts stores. Does this work?

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars leemp337 says:

    should have also pressure tested without the copper gasket to see what would have leaked out.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! ducatista1098s says:

    Thanks you jeebus? Thank you knipex

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