GOD DAMMIT!!!!!! i need another helicoil!!!

this will be the second time ive needed to get a helecoil for a stripped spark plug hole!! and always at a time when i need to drive my car.

thought to myself, of good friday, the one day off a year im guaranteed to have. Ill do some work on my car.

start with changing the plugs, pull the first plug, go to screw in the replacement, bam stripped, old one must have just been holding on with a few threads.

so now its easter and i cant drive to work untill i get the helcoil done and i cant even ring to book it till tuesday!

Nicko

and they say there is no god accident my bum
ggo luck

You don't need to book the car in to fit a helicoil, in Newcastle I got all the gear I needed from a mob called Bearing Traders, probably one near you or someone who can supply what you need, came with a kit to do the total job and was cheap as compared to getting it done by some one else, was real easy to do.
Good luck

There is something called Time-sert?? that i believe is better
Can be done insitu

here ya go

http://www.wurth.com.au/catalogue/A04_0136.pdf

Nick i will be at Custom Vee Dub over the weekend if you can get the car down there i can help you BUT ring me first.

Andrew 0407373781

A helicoil is not a good repair 4 a vw sparkplug thread,
Time sert as mentioned above is the best fix

I use "helicoil" genericaly, what is the diference between the different types ?

If you look here
http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=helicoil&gbv=2

You will see a helicoil is an actual coil

Whereas if you look here
http://images.google.com.au/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=timesert&btnG=Search+Images

you will see the timesert in a threaded insert

No expert but i can see the threaded insert will be stronger.
I have read that a lot of racers put timserts into new heads before use - especially onto aluminium heads

I had time serts used on my heads and was brilliant.
V Force did it for me.
Motor didnt need to come out

cost me 100 bucks for a helicoil and all labour last time (i took the cage off for them first)

ill check out these time serts thanks bizarre


andrew you have a U2U

fixed.

didnt have time to shop around for a time sert so i went with the heli coil.

88 bucks this time.

Deffo go for a timesert next time, far superior than Helicoils for spark plug holes.
Helicoils do have their uses though. Saved me a few times

"Stuff a stoat!" 88 AUD is 40 UKP (yup I'm a Pommie)
Over here you could buy a helicoil plug kit for that price. To have a timesert done is around 25UKP for a loose head...54 AUD

Yep, timesert is the one I used, did it myself, extra easy extra quick