[DeTomaso] Galled stainless fasteners

[Dave Londry]

Say Charles,
Aren't you the perpetual optimist?
What happened?
dave

 Charles Engles wrote:
> Dear Dave,
>
>
>             This sounds remarkably like Tim Tytle's experience.  He had
> fancy aluminum pulleys secured with pretty stainless bolts.  Unfortunately,
> the bolts holding the crank pulley on the harmonic balancer were improperly
> installed, resulting in the steel bolts coming a bit loose and turning the
> holes in the aluminum pulley into slots.  When the problem was finally
> found, only one or two of the galled stainless bolts could be removed.
> Ultimately, the balancer had to be removed and even with the pulley and
> balancer and galled bolts on the work bench one bolt couldn't be removed.
> New pulley. New balancer. Normal grade 8 bolts. No problems now.
>
>             It appears that you may have a real headache on your hands.
>
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