one of my neighbors owns a 1986 corvette and he calls me up nearly in tears , to inform me that while he was replacing the air filter the 20 year old plastic air filter housing he was inserting the air filter in, he had the thread insert flange on its edge crack off, and now there was no way to secure the air filter element , and a quick check on line shows that with shipping that a replacement costs nearly $200 with shipping
I found this picture(above) posted on line,
showing similar damage so youll get the idea better
http://www.ecklerscorvette.com/corvette-air-filter-housing-duct-1985-1989.html
he slightly over tightened the bolt above cracking off the 20 year old plastic ear on the air filter housing
I simply measured and modified a common angle bracket but cutting off a bit of one leg, drilling out the one hole and inserting an expanding threaded insert of the correct thread size and expanding it in place I then coated it with J&B weld epoxy placed it exactly where it needed to be, and drilled two holes in the plastic housing , after bending the steel bracket with the threaded insert, to carefully match the air filter housing contour ,inserted two short bolts and used nyloc nuts on the inside of the housing, I smeared a bit more J&B epoxy, on both sides and painted the result after the J&B epoxy hardened with semi gloss black paint.
the result is both stronger and almost indistinguishable from the exterior from the original without a close inspection.
please excuse the terrible art work with paint on the computer but it should help get the idea across
resulting in about an hours work and about $28 spent vs $200
http://www.jegs.com/i/Eastwood/352/11449Z/10002/-1?parentProductId=3542389
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...ng-your-tpi-maf-and-cpu-links.2825/#post-7295
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...ntake-air-temperature-sensor.4819/#post-13174
I found this picture(above) posted on line,
showing similar damage so youll get the idea better
http://www.ecklerscorvette.com/corvette-air-filter-housing-duct-1985-1989.html
he slightly over tightened the bolt above cracking off the 20 year old plastic ear on the air filter housing
I simply measured and modified a common angle bracket but cutting off a bit of one leg, drilling out the one hole and inserting an expanding threaded insert of the correct thread size and expanding it in place I then coated it with J&B weld epoxy placed it exactly where it needed to be, and drilled two holes in the plastic housing , after bending the steel bracket with the threaded insert, to carefully match the air filter housing contour ,inserted two short bolts and used nyloc nuts on the inside of the housing, I smeared a bit more J&B epoxy, on both sides and painted the result after the J&B epoxy hardened with semi gloss black paint.
the result is both stronger and almost indistinguishable from the exterior from the original without a close inspection.
please excuse the terrible art work with paint on the computer but it should help get the idea across
resulting in about an hours work and about $28 spent vs $200
http://www.jegs.com/i/Eastwood/352/11449Z/10002/-1?parentProductId=3542389
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...ng-your-tpi-maf-and-cpu-links.2825/#post-7295
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...ntake-air-temperature-sensor.4819/#post-13174
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