overtighten nut
 

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????

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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.

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Those studs snap a lot :-\

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

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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)

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

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

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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

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---- it.

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