The great service you can get from small local businesses never ceases to amaze me. I spoke to Bill at my favourite local machine shop who do a lot of work for the company that I work for, and he was very accommodating. He said "Heli-coils, in aluminum, holes already there? No problem. When do you need it?" Nice. Very nice. Dropped it off at lunch and picked it up after work. He put inserts in all four holes, in the photo you can see the fresh shiny new threads in one of them on the lower right. Cost? $10. Hard to beat.
When I removed the oil pan, the brand new gasket was destroyed of course, so I can't put it back on until the new one arrives (ordered Tuesday from the local IH dealer, should be in Friday).
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So glad you are doing this and recording it. It sounds so simple when you write it up, almost like I knew what you were talking about.
Maybe one day you will also help me convert it to run on vegetable oil too:)
Vegetable oil? I wouldn't be surprised if somebody out there hadn't done this already!
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