Technical Reasonable price to helicoil carb mount hole in aluminum intake?

Pulled the stud out of my intake. What is a reasonable price to have it drilled out and helicoiled?

It's an Edelbrock Performer RPM 2.0

 

I paid $20.00 about 4 years ago

 

1/2 hr of the going shop rate in your area.

Buy the kit and do it yourself

 

Tell us where you are located, maybe someone here can help.

 

Missoula Montana.

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Weld a 5/16 stud to the bottom of a 1/4 stud, cut to proper length. I take a 5/16 bolt (course thread) and put a slot on each side to use as a poor mans tap to prep the stripped hole. This helps prep the hole for your replacement stud and keeps the hole tighter than using a tap. This works good in many applications - like my stripped out chainsaw muffler mounting holes. Gives you more bite in the stripped out hole and keeps the upper stud the same size.

 

I'd almost prefer to have someone who's done it before and knows what they're doing do it. I want to be done with the problem, haha. Honestly, I'd be fine paying a HAMBer to do it, or the local shop.

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Do it yourself! It's not difficult. Drill the hole out, tap it with the correct tap and thread the Helicoil insert in. Let it set, then assemble. It will be stronger than the original threads.
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Buy the kit as said above, beats the heck out of pulling the intake and taking it somewhere.

Not to sound snarky, but if you don't feel comfortable with drilling a hole and tapping it, who's gonna bolt the carb back on for you?

Little hint, get the shop vac out to catch all shavings, then use grease on the tap, so as you cut new threads, the splinters will stay inside the flutes on the tap.

The only thing you have to be careful about is is when you twist the little retainer off the insert...again, use some sticky grease on the end of the little tool they give you...depending on the stud;s depth, it may not be necessary at all.

YOU CA DOOO EEEEET!

 

do it and learn something new and useful...........

 

do it yourself , got to learn sometime and its a good thing to learn . heck I did 4 of them when I was 16 on my Vw beetle when the studs stripped out on the exhaust ( and did it with the motor in the car ) ,
just take your time and read the instructions 2-3 times before you start and no brewskis till its done .

I tape off the manifold with painters tape then drill , blow out chips , tap ,blow out and vacuum the chips , insert thread coil ( it goes in dry ! NO THREAD LOCKER!!! ) , snap the tang off with a screw driver or needle nose pliers and then insert stud dry and hand tighten only , the nut will clamp and hold the carb down , I never drill past the hole depth in the manfold , no need to create a potential vacuum leak . ( which I have chased down several on used manifolds that were repaired and drill thru and a different carb was used and exposed the hole )

 

most places around me charge by 1 hour flat rate plus materials , and thats often $ 75-100 for the labor and $ 5-10 a insert . if they will do it . the machine shop down the street has a $250 minimum .

 

E-Z Loc. Almost too easy, reliable, better than a Heli-Coil IMO. Your results may vary...

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Ship me the manifold and I will do it for free . Shipping will cost about a $100.00.
Get a kit and do it yourself. Come on Man ! Shouldn't take you more than 15 minutes.

 

I'm with Highlander, I prefer E-Z Loc over Heli-coil but both are easy to use.

Here shops have a minimum charge so you would be way ahead $ wise doing it yourself. if shops just charged by time and material, you would be ok but most have a minimum charge now that puts those small easy quicky jobs out of the price market.

if you insist on someone else doing it then stay away from regular car dealerships and garages but look for a small engine guy in your neighborhood or your neighborhood backyard car guy . the small engine guy time rate will be cheaper and most likely won't have a minimum charge and your neighborhood car enthusiast might do it just for bringing a few beers over.

Buy the kit and you should be able to find someone close to you that can do it for you cheaper than a full staff state of the arts garage, think of retired mechanix in your area, car club in your area, grease monkey down the street or even maybe the local scrapper( they are good at rebuilding junk) could do it for you a lot cheaper.

 

Dude, you're 20 years old. You have a lifetime of screwed up things to fix.

This is one of those small little repairs you should do. There's great advise above about catching the chips. That's all you need.


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Go for it. You can do it.

 

I.m with everybody else here. Man up. Do it yourself, Whichever insert you use you will be fine and build confidence in yourself. There is way to little of do it yourself today. And you will have the kit and skill for the rest of your life.

 

You, being 20 years old, will have the electronic-internet-gadget experience to research how to do this simple job. No hand blisters will occur.

 

Just fixed a exhaust port tapped hole on a set of Edelbrock aluminum heads with a helicoil for a young fella a couple months ago. With him doing the actual labor, I walked/showed him how to do it.

His words when finished were "Hell....that was easy"

 

Most of the kits have extra inserts. Find a junk lawnmower engine and do a couple practice holes. It's not hard to do. Just keep the tap straight with the hole.

I could drink 12 beers and do it. Might drill out the wrong hole, but it would be a nice job.

 

Haha, everyone thinks I've never turned a wrench lol. I certainly had, I just desperately need my truck to be in tip top shape before I leave Missoula, and I know a professional will do it right. I might not.
I also don't have a shop vac, nor a garage to do it in. Lets say I did do it, my carb holes are blind holes. If I make sure not to drill too far, can I skip the shop vac part and get away with a can of compressed air?

Also, what size helicoil do I need to buy?

 

5/16" national course. Don't drill too deep...stuff a rag down the carb hole and carefull remove it when you're done. You dont want any shavings going down. Be careful and you'll do fine.

 

61Chevy454: I understand you just want the problem to go away.
If you live in south FL, bring it to my house and I'll
do it for free. You just buy the kit. There is probably a HAMBurger
near you who can lend a hand.

 

Good thing about your repair is that it's right out in the open. Much easier than an exhaust manifold or water pump bolt.

Yeah, just tape over the opening and blow out the shavings when you're done. No need to over think it.

As for size, I believe there's a chart for that on the package.

 

Watch a couple of utube videos on it.

 

Feeling like I'm getting some Onion with my hamb.

 

Do it urself...not that hard

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i had to do one in a turbo 350. cost me about $15 and i did it without removing the trans.

 

This is one of the perfect jobs where buying the tool and doing it yourself is still probably cheaper than paying to have it done. Win Win!