Threads are messed up, where you drain oil..help

[acesnkush]

Ok.... My friend has a 85 cr250, he brought it in to the honda shop to get some **** done. Apparently his bolt to drain the oil stripped so they had to drill into it, to get it out. The honda dude didnt have a bolt of the same size so he wedgeed a different siize one in there, which is making him leak trasnmission oil. The threads are now ****ed up because of the bolt the honda guy put it.
My question is, can he thread a wider whole at the buttom and buy a bigger bolt for the buttom? Will that screw anything up? Any other suggestions

 

[2strokerfun]

heli coil it

 

[Ol'89r]

If there is enough material left around the drain hole, it can be heli-coiled. If not, it can be tig-welded and re-tapped. Tell your friend to find another Honda shop.

 

[bsmith]

Take it back and require them to fix it correctly, if not Better Business Burea should be called!

 

[oldguy]

also while you are at it if you want to post clean up your language the ********'s don't impress anyone here

 

[sparkysakitas]

not to hijack this thread but where can i get a heli core kit my 90 rm 125 threads for oil drain bolt just stripped

 

[oldguy]

When I needed helicoils a while back I was able to find them at a hardware store. I tried a couple of the chain auto parts houses and was told by both that they no longer carried them because of liabilty concerns. Apparrently someone sued one of them after he put them in wrong and when it blew out damaged his hood (it was in a sparkplug hole).
Problem I had was finding a tool to insert them with so I paid the local shop a couple bucks to install them

 

[mtk]

McMasterCarr.com

 

[sparkysakitas]

thanks guys
:cool:

 

[Chili]

http://www.timesert.com/ these were recommended to me a few years ago when I had on oops moment on my kids KX80 and stripped the drain plug threads. I didn't have time to get them and went the heli-coil route.

 

[dezryder]

The shop should have done it already.

heli coil.