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Mod | | | Forums66 Topics128,042 Posts1,055,501 Members48,424 | | Most Online14,466 Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,752 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,752 | Is the hole off-centered far enough to damage the threads yet? If so, it's going to require some heroic measures to correct. You might try bolting an old pump housing onto the block and using the hole in the pump as a drill guide to try to remove the rest of the bolt. That's not likely to succeed, as the drill bit will probably try to follow the hole that's already there and just hog out the pump housing. If I had the block at my shop, I'd use the water pump gasket as a pattern to make a 1/2" steel plate with the pump bolt pattern drilled into it, and open up the hole in question big enough to accept a hardened steel drill guide bushing. This is bolted onto the block and used as a guide to drill out the remainder of the bolt, and then heli-coil the hole. This procedure would involve about $200.00 worth of fabrication work! It's a lot simpler to get a pilot hole exactly on center in the broken-off bolt and avoid the off-center problem in the first place. Jerry
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