E30 Zone

Got some now do I use my red llctite and put them in or what?
Have the original ones in there but they seemed so loose as I was changing the hoses I thought ide change them, do I loctite the new ones in to hold them still while I do the throttle body up or some other way.

Red is a bit much. If you do use loctite a tiny dab of 243 'blue' at the most. I never thread lock parts into engines personally.

Well if you don't loctite them, they'll just unscrew as you do the nuts up. Or we're my studs shrunk or the manifold got that much bigger
How hot does the throttle body area get?

I would copper grease as you never know when you have to remove them again, old cars now you know
Lock two nuts on one end and tighten the studs into where they should be .
These wont move or undo when tightening up the nuts.

Mart.

martauto wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:32 pm

Lock two nuts on one end and tighten the studs into where they should be .
These wont move or undo when tightening up the nuts.

Mart.

There too short they'd screw pretty much all the way in until there's no thread left, so I can't, that's why I'm using thread locker

These are the studs. They have tj go through the throttle body into the heater plate then into the manifold
There's not much thread to work with

Get yourself some threaded bar from e-bay and cut it longer and then you will have what you require

Mart.

Think if found my problem. That blue loctite doesn't actually work(cheap unknown brand)
Tomorrow if it doesn't rain I'll REAL loctite them in place with my new bolts.
And the problem will be sorted alongside my new throttle cable. Maybe a fresh magic tree too.

Armanib666 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:07 pm

Maybe a fresh magic tree too.

Mart.

I have found that if studs are loose in alloy then it will not long before they wear the threads and work loose. best to bite the bullet, remove the throttle body and fit some inserts and fix it once and for all. Go for nutserts rather than helicoils,