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Old 2009-06-02, 02:56 PM   #55
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What do you think's holding it in there now?

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What I ended up doing as a temporary fix is I used this Screw Hole Repair stuff I had picked up at Harbor Freight a while back. It’s just thin sheet metal that you cut into strips and put into the hole to act as a shim. I experimented with it to ensure it held up to the screwing back in process and it seemed to. But I couldn’t get the hole to seal completely and pass the soapy water test.

I’m tempted to just leave it since I really don’t think it’s losing much exhaust, but I won’t be happy with that. What if it blows the probe out at an autocross or somewhere else because the hole repair metal just melts…or whatever.
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