GrumpyOldMan
Member
Hello all,
just wondering if anyone on here has used Aluminium putty to do any repairs?
I have another car (Chevrolet) on which the timing belt tensioner seized in it's mounting hole, it's actually the cam on which the tensioner rotates. With patience I thought I had freed it off but the bloody thing had actually snapped off leaving me with a hardened steel stub in an aluminium crankcase. There is no way I can drill the hardened steel (partly due to terrible access) so I am going to drill around the stub and get it out that way. Then I will use aluminium putty to fill the hole and redrill.
I know it sounds a botch job but my neighbour is an aircraft engineer (BAE) and he assures me it will work. Problem is he's just gone off to Greece for two weeks!
Just wondering if anyone has any experience of the stuff and which one you reccomend. Sorry to be off topic but I value the opinion of the people on here.
Ian.
just wondering if anyone on here has used Aluminium putty to do any repairs?
I have another car (Chevrolet) on which the timing belt tensioner seized in it's mounting hole, it's actually the cam on which the tensioner rotates. With patience I thought I had freed it off but the bloody thing had actually snapped off leaving me with a hardened steel stub in an aluminium crankcase. There is no way I can drill the hardened steel (partly due to terrible access) so I am going to drill around the stub and get it out that way. Then I will use aluminium putty to fill the hole and redrill.
I know it sounds a botch job but my neighbour is an aircraft engineer (BAE) and he assures me it will work. Problem is he's just gone off to Greece for two weeks!
Just wondering if anyone has any experience of the stuff and which one you reccomend. Sorry to be off topic but I value the opinion of the people on here.
Ian.