70 Blazer steering gear box question
 

Help me out guys! I Stripped one of the top bolt holes for the steering gear box to the frame, longer story but it happened. The other 3 are fine but I was going to fix it by putting a nut on the other end... Does that sound ok to you? I could redrill the hole and tap it bigger but there is not a lot of metal there to begin with so thought this would be an easy and fast fix. Need suggestions!!! Thanks for a great place to sound off! bigdon

Re: 70 Blazer steering gear box question
 

Yes nut, bolt and washers will be fine.

Kevin
LFD Inc.

Re: 70 Blazer steering gear box question
 

thats what i would do don. just put the bolt thru and the nut as you said. and btw that is one clean and shiny frame. one can see the time and effort you have put into it.

Re: 70 Blazer steering gear box question
 

Thanks for the kind words and the advice. I am an anesthetist and this is my first project so things that are second nature to you all is something I don't know but will find out. Will do!!!!

Re: 70 Blazer steering gear box question
 

another alternative is re-thread it to metric , they are just a bit bigger than standard. we do that quite often when bolts pull threads on aluminum heads when working with exhaust manifolds.