What To Use When You Break A Piece Of A Block..
03-21-2005, 08:22 AM
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Well, today is definitely a monday. I'm stuck driving my Dad's old Ford Escort Wagon with NO heat, I can see my breathe the whole time coming to work. Then I get here to work and the server's down *Again* and I have no internet or server-email access on my main desktop.
And this all started due to an Oil Pressure Sender on my integra! Such an easy fix, take the old one (that's leaking oil through it) off and put this new one on! Well, after the threading finishes on the new one, it doesn't square off (Perpendicular) to the bolt its on...it Y's out (like a cone). This means, as I'm screwin this little bastard in, it get's "Snug" slowly. My mentality is, hey this is going on the block, which gets hot and vibrates, better be sure it's tight....
...well one turn too much and a piece of the block breaks off! The tube with threading that the Oil Pressure Sender screws into is busted!
So, now my Integra is down, unless I somehow find a way/material to "glue" this piece back on to be able to screw the sender back in, or just seal up that hole there and ignore the "Check Oil" Light that will always be on....
Is there some sort of glue/apoxy etc. for idiots that break parts of their aluminum block off?
And this all started due to an Oil Pressure Sender on my integra! Such an easy fix, take the old one (that's leaking oil through it) off and put this new one on! Well, after the threading finishes on the new one, it doesn't square off (Perpendicular) to the bolt its on...it Y's out (like a cone). This means, as I'm screwin this little bastard in, it get's "Snug" slowly. My mentality is, hey this is going on the block, which gets hot and vibrates, better be sure it's tight....
...well one turn too much and a piece of the block breaks off! The tube with threading that the Oil Pressure Sender screws into is busted!
So, now my Integra is down, unless I somehow find a way/material to "glue" this piece back on to be able to screw the sender back in, or just seal up that hole there and ignore the "Check Oil" Light that will always be on....
Is there some sort of glue/apoxy etc. for idiots that break parts of their aluminum block off?
03-21-2005, 08:42 AM
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Yea, FWIW, the piece that broke off is no larger in length than a quarter, picture half of a "pipe" like shape, you can see the threading.
The location is on the drivers side, firewall facing part of the block, down low next to my oil filter.
The car/engine has 170k on it, so I don't really have the vigor to pull the engine up and out just to conveniently weld, unless I can do it myself from under the car.
Blah, it was only worth like $1200 anyways, I may just go buy a MKI MR2 for fun until I save up for a newer/better Daily Driver...
The location is on the drivers side, firewall facing part of the block, down low next to my oil filter.
The car/engine has 170k on it, so I don't really have the vigor to pull the engine up and out just to conveniently weld, unless I can do it myself from under the car.
Blah, it was only worth like $1200 anyways, I may just go buy a MKI MR2 for fun until I save up for a newer/better Daily Driver...
03-21-2005, 10:53 AM
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One thing to take into mind when you do things like this. Different materials heat up at different rates, so that sensor could heat up quicker than the block, and either break the sender or crack the block, if you tighten it to far. If you start to feel pressure when you are screwing something in, always stop, thread it out, maybe throw some lube on there and try again, but if it is still get snug when you have a lot left to thread in, than something is wrong. When that peice fell off, some could have sheared off and ended up in your oil pan, plus if you crossthreaded it, which it sounds like, you may have sheared the threads off, and then you have more material in the oil pan. Not a good thing. I don't know how well a weld would hold up. Since it's aluminum I would recommend tig, don't try to half *** it with a mig welder because the material the mig uses probably won't heat up at the same rate, the tig material would be closer, but I still don't know if it would hold up. Devcon or jb weld, well I wouldn't ever do that, but that's me, I don't like doing bandaides for a problem.
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03-21-2005, 09:13 PM
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[quote name='nopistons93' date='Mar 21 2005, 08:33 PM']never work on the RX7 !!!
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Too late, ***. Already did a reman on that FC and fixed my minor problem on my FD :P
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Too late, ***. Already did a reman on that FC and fixed my minor problem on my FD :P