starter bold busted

[jch7450]

Heres one i hope someone can answer.i broke the long inside starter bolt on my g.m. 3.0 ,4 cyl.<br /><br />It's to hard to get to to drill out without pulling the engine.it has a bracket on the rear of the starter bolted to the block.You think it will hold for the rest of the season with the one short bolt about one more month?? i hope so..thank you

 

[tommays]

Re: starter bold busted

i think that you will break the other bolt and may damage the ring gear because of bad starter line up<br /><br />is the other bolt broken off flush with the block or can the starter be droped down and pull the bolt with vise grips<br /><br />this has come up here before and it seams that everone agreed the only thing to do was pull the motor because there is no drilling acess<br /><br />tommays

 

[johnkc]

Re: starter bold busted

do yourself a favor , pull the engine! almost impossible to drill the broken bolt straight enough to use an easy out.

 

[Bt Doctur]

Re: starter bold busted

Pulling the engine is the best way, just be gentle with the easy-out.If it dosent budge drill to normal retapping size and retap.Put 2 new bolts in too.

 

[KaGee]

Re: starter bold busted

And tip the new bolts with Anti-seize!

 

[MH9371B]

Re: starter bold busted

This exact thing happened to me. I continued to run the boat with only the one smaller bolt holding the starter in. Two things happened: pinion gear would no longer properly align with flywheel unless I tightened that bolt EVERY time I started the boat, and after about 5-6 times of doing that, the whole starter broke off due to too much stress on that side.<br /><br />Engine had to be pulled out. No other way to do it, really.