heli coil kit installation question

[madsin]

So,another post by yours truly,which just goes to show that if anything can go wrong it will.Cleaned and reassembled my carbs,even got them back in(thanks to whoever posted the tip about WD40 on the boots,the carbs slid in really easily.).So went to put in new spark plugs to fire it up and see how I did,and somehow ended up with a cross threading situation.I bought a helicoil kit off of E-bay(Hope the quality is o.k.,but the price was right 12.99 with 9 coils,I will post and tell you guys how it worked out.)
the meat of the question is this,anyone who has used these kits have any advice?Especially about keeping the shavings out of the engine,I don't want to have to remove the head to do it but will if I have to.Thanks once again.

[XS1100DRAGRACER]

I had to give my 2 cents. I just reinstalled my carbs and that WD-40 idea was great.!!!

[xswilly]

don't just helicoil the head without reading the forum

do a search, there is a thread somewhere about what to do

a summery would be

hook a air compressor or a shop vac to your exhaust, the side that you are doing the helicoil on
duct tape works for this

turn your motor over until the air is coming out of the spark plug hole

that way it will blow the metal chips out of the cylinder

do the helicoil with the vac or compressor running
wear eye protection as the chips will fly

be careful
good luck

[xswilly]

after reading my reply

i forgot to say that the shop vac needs to blow into the exhaust
not suck

good luck

[thumperjsa]

I can't remember whom but someone posted recently about how they put in the Helicoils with the head on and when they later tore down the engine, they showed some damage to the valve. This was because the helicoil was inserted to far.

The shopvac may be a good idea but if you don't feel comfortable with the possibility of going in to far a nd damage to the internals of your engine, you may want to tear it down and do the helicoil.

[MAXIMAN]

Before you "helicoil" it...try chasing the old threads with a tap. Many times I've had a "cross thread" situation and I can simply chase the old threads with a tap.

A lot of times ...if you get the tap straight...it works like a charm. It's worth a try.

[thumperjsa]

I believe someone mentioned previously about trying to retap from the inside out.

There maybe some information on this on the site.

[prometheus578]

tap inside out

Yeah, twas me. Inside out tap bought from the MAC TOOL guy. I think a set of three sizes was $75 or there abouts, but as we only need one size, do the math for the price on one. Was a lot of good info on that earlier tapping thread. try to do a search for it.

[prometheus578]

Do a search for MAC TOOL TAP. will bring up a thread started by BROCK last september.