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Hi,

While fitting a 998 back in a 1275 '92 shell, I had to convert to thermostat housing for the heater take off => one extra sandwich plate with the heater take off.

So I use the longer bolts.

Now the "funny" part of it is that for some reason, the longer bolts can't go down all the way (around 5 mm missing) even if I double checked that their extra lenght is that of the sandwich plate and no more.

The obvious solution would be to re tap the holes but I can only get metric tools ...

And I filled the holes with WD40 and cleaned thorougly (with a small drill that I turned by hand) but it won't go.

What is wrong with those holes ???

Rusty by nature

Check the thread on the longer bolts is not M8.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Without the sandwich plates, it would normally be studs fitted, not bolts.

Did you have studs previously ??

If so, often the thread length on the bottom of a stud is less than the depth of hole so what you had in before may never have gone to the bottom so the last few threads may just need cleaning - for which you will need an imperial tap, and a plug tap too, not a normal taper or second....

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

The longer bolts are off a metro. I didn't suspect they might be metric.
I'll have a look

Previously, I had bolts, not studs

Rusty by nature

http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx?ty=...NG%20BOLT%20W... :)

Cheers Gavin, that is where I first checked if there was different bolts.

Anyway, I'll have a look over the week- end

Rusty by nature