Bad day for LT1 intake :(
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Bad day for LT1 intake :( So I was installing the brake booster screw in portion in the intake that the hose hooks upto and it snapped off! I was so close to completing my 355 LT1 with a cc306 cam and now this happened, should I do the right thing and take the intake off to get it removed and then rethread it with a heli coil or should I jerry rig and JB weld the snapped off portion to the remaining portion in the intake???? Sounds shitty I know but how important is this brake booster thing any how? What's this for and can it be bypassed completely????? It's been 3 months of the car being down and quite frankley I've had it! I swear I have the worst luck ever. What does everyone thing about this situation????? Thanks guys steve
So I was installing the brake booster screw in portion in the intake that the hose hooks upto and it snapped off! I was so close to completing my 355 LT1 with a cc306 cam and now this happened, should I do the right thing and take the intake off to get it removed and then rethread it with a heli coil or should I jerry rig and JB weld the snapped off portion to the remaining portion in the intake???? Sounds shitty I know but how important is this brake booster thing any how? What's this for and can it be bypassed completely????? It's been 3 months of the car being down and quite frankley I've had it! I swear I have the worst luck ever. What does everyone thing about this situation????? Thanks guys steve
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So how would you do it keeping the intake on? Do you think If I got some type of tap to try and get it out it would work the shavings in or out, that's what worries me??? Not sure what to do at this point!
How the heck did you break THAT???
Honestly, I don't know if they make helicoils in that thread size to fix it...
To repair it you most certainly need to pull the intake manifold. You then need to get the broken off piece out, then retap it bigger and use a proper size fitting...
The brake booster hose is VERY critical, as it supplies vacuum to the booster so you have powered brakes... Without the hose being hooked up properly you won't pull a vacuum and have only manual brakes.
Honestly, if that happened to me, if I couldnt' get the broken piece out cleanly and even witha larger fitting, unless I had a ton of cash in the intake for custom work, I would just get another LT1 intake and start over.
Honestly, I don't know if they make helicoils in that thread size to fix it...
To repair it you most certainly need to pull the intake manifold. You then need to get the broken off piece out, then retap it bigger and use a proper size fitting...
The brake booster hose is VERY critical, as it supplies vacuum to the booster so you have powered brakes... Without the hose being hooked up properly you won't pull a vacuum and have only manual brakes.
Honestly, if that happened to me, if I couldnt' get the broken piece out cleanly and even witha larger fitting, unless I had a ton of cash in the intake for custom work, I would just get another LT1 intake and start over.
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Not sure how it broke, it's a 94 with lots of years of heat stress on it I guess! Hell I got it pretty much all the way in and was still going a bit at the end and then snap, followed by a bunch of Mother this and Mother that! What should I use to get it out or attempt! So for sure the intake should come off then! F***!
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Yeah it was the actual fitting! Ok so I just got the intake completly off! Yeah kind of fast I know, I want the **** back together ASAP. I most likely wont be able to get that fitting any where but the dealership so It will be Monday to even place an order and then a 2-3 days for it to come in. I just want to make sure I can get this peice out. I guess I'm running to lowes to see if I can get a tap/Die set.... Wish me luck!
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Ok, so got the broken peice out and I'm getting ready to install the intake again for the
3rd time in it's life, lol! Thank god I found another fitting to go in it at Ace Hardware so I can get it up and running without waiting a week to get it in at the dealership! Damn if it's not one thing it's something else! Thanks guys for the advice and all. I'll be posting a start up video one of these days! Hopefully all goes well from this point forward!
3rd time in it's life, lol! Thank god I found another fitting to go in it at Ace Hardware so I can get it up and running without waiting a week to get it in at the dealership! Damn if it's not one thing it's something else! Thanks guys for the advice and all. I'll be posting a start up video one of these days! Hopefully all goes well from this point forward!
What do you mean they can't hold the pressure? If it's made of metal and you use a sealer on the threads, how could it not hold up?
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It's a brass fitting with the coorect pipe threaded end, It's brass so I installed it with some RTV sealant to be safe and painted it black considering my intake is blake. It looks very sharp. If I could every figure outhow to upload some pics then I would post some pics of the new build! Thanks guys
