Valve cover bolt size
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Year: 2001
Model: Cherokee
Valve cover bolt size
Does anyone here know the size of the valve cover bolts?
I was installing a new gasket and I stripped one bolt.
It wouldn't go into the hole.
I need to know what tap size to get and bolt.
I was installing a new gasket and I stripped one bolt.
It wouldn't go into the hole.
I need to know what tap size to get and bolt.
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Year: 1988
Model: Cherokee
Engine: AMC242
Cast cover - 1/4"-20x1"
Stamped cover - 1/4"-20x3/4" or so.
Get a 1/4"-20 tap set (starting and bottoming,) or a 1/4"-20 screw thread insert kit (use a Heli-Coil or a Re-Coil, you'll have a hard time with a threaded bushing. Keen-Sert or Time-Sert might work - they're thin-walled bushings.)
Stamped cover - 1/4"-20x3/4" or so.
Get a 1/4"-20 tap set (starting and bottoming,) or a 1/4"-20 screw thread insert kit (use a Heli-Coil or a Re-Coil, you'll have a hard time with a threaded bushing. Keen-Sert or Time-Sert might work - they're thin-walled bushings.)
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Joined: Feb 2010
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From: PA
Year: 2001
Model: Cherokee
Cast cover - 1/4"-20x1"
Stamped cover - 1/4"-20x3/4" or so.
Get a 1/4"-20 tap set (starting and bottoming,) or a 1/4"-20 screw thread insert kit (use a Heli-Coil or a Re-Coil, you'll have a hard time with a threaded bushing. Keen-Sert or Time-Sert might work - they're thin-walled bushings.)
Stamped cover - 1/4"-20x3/4" or so.
Get a 1/4"-20 tap set (starting and bottoming,) or a 1/4"-20 screw thread insert kit (use a Heli-Coil or a Re-Coil, you'll have a hard time with a threaded bushing. Keen-Sert or Time-Sert might work - they're thin-walled bushings.)
Thanks. Ended up taking the bolt to lowes found the nut that fit it to find out it was 1/4 - 20
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