bobbyBgood

Guys I was reinstalling my valve cover on my B18b, and I overtighten the nut to the right of the #1 spark plug, and now all it does is just turn in both directions, the good news is that I have all the other ones on and their perfect, but how do I fix this?

ssl2k

get a dremel and cut that nut off and then take the valve cover off and take a vice grip and remove the stud and replace the stud and nut.

fork

Those studs snap a lot

davcivic

It happened to me once, I didn't do ----, drove the car for 2 years, and sold it with one of them broken.

superpilun

if you remove everything and find the threads f'ed up, put a helicoil in it. it's stronger than the original threaded hole (given you install it correctly)

con

its a stud not a hole, you cant helicoil a stud

biggmike

last time i checked, studs threaded down into a hole but i might be wrong.

con

thats not the part thats strips, its the other end of the stud sticking out the top of the valve cover, were the nut goes :P

Doofnoil

---- it.

bambooseven

I broke 3 out of 5 on steve's Y8, we just used the two that were left and A LOT of orange RTV.