My guess is that the last guy who replaced it might have overtightened
it and/or the sender was seized in the block which galled the threads.
I don't remember what year your car is, you may have just enough room
to install a heli-coil. You may need to remove some stuff (starter?)
to get a straight shot at it.
Sorry, I don't remember the thread size and pitch.
If you do this (and I don't think you have much choice) use a liberal
helping of grease on the drill and tap, go slow, drill a little bit,
clean off the chips and repeat.
After your are done, before you install the sender, crank the engine
over to push some oil out the hole, which will carry any debris with it.
It's important that your new threads remain square so that it will
seal properly.
Lastly, use a new crush washer between the block and sender.
Jeff
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 1, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Alan Lambert <[email protected]> wrote:
First, thanks to members of the digest, I successfully removed the
old sender.
It required quite a bit of force to unscrew---much more than a small
screw
insert should have taken.
Second, I screwed in the new sender-----except I didn't-----with a
small bit
of force (hand turned) it went in---and turned and turned and
turned, showing
resistance every few turns.
Since it's just about impossible to get a good view of the threads
in the
block, I can't tell, but I suspect the last insertion may have
damaged the
threads.
Suggestions???????----------------------------haaaalp
Alan Lambert
--- En date de : Jeu 1.7.10, George Graves <[email protected]> a
icrit :
De: George Graves <[email protected]>
Objet: Re: [alfa] tz3
@: "ira kaufman" <[email protected]>
Cc: "alfa" <[email protected]>
Date: Jeudi 1 juillet 2010, 20h50
Ah! Here's the rub. I have about a dozen books on the history of
Alfa Romeo.
It's about split 50/50 that TZ either means "Tubolare Zagato" or
"Turismo
(Touring) Zagato". The TZ3, having no tubes, sorta slants that
answer toward
Turismo, methinks.
George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'
On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:15 AM, ira kaufman wrote:
why they call it the tubelare(aint no tubes) is silly but the tz3 is
stunning.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjUWKnl1D_4&feature=related
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