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Why does nobody talk about flipping the nut on a stripped bolt before chasing threads
Last week I stripped the bleeder screw on my truck's caliper and was ready to buy a whole new one until my neighbor in Reno showed me to run a thread chaser in from the back side first, which caught the good threads and straightened the bad ones in about 4 minutes. I had been soaking everything in PB Blaster and forcing it from the front for 2 hours before that, and it kept slipping. Has anyone else had luck chasing from the back, or do you just replace the part at that point?
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oscarc128h ago
Read a machinist forum post about this exact trick. Guy said going in from the clean side lets the chaser follow the good threads instead of cutting new ones, and it saved him from pulling a head.
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