How old is the housing?
I assume years - so if it held for the original sensor thread, then it will hold for similar amount of time with a helicoil - that assumes the sensor is sealing with a copper or dowty washer - not sure I'd try it with a taper thread.
Work colleague used his camper van today - recently managed to get the V5 changed from van to camper van. But only euro5. Discovered he's breached the local clean air zone for a few hundred yards just to get into the road work is on.
Worked out he could avoid it by turning off on the way...
About £150 from tat I chucked in the auction house on the road into work - auctions held this evening - just checked the live auction :D
Some stuff didn't sell - music stands, shoe last, various books and CDs - but the tapes did. In rummaging through stuff, found my mum, now 85, liked...
If you follow the instructions, drill the correct sized hole, perpendicular to the surface, tap it correctly, install the insert using the correct tool to the depth they suggest (usually 1/4 - 1/2 a turn below the surface), snap the tang off and remove it, then it will work.
We use helicoils specifically in threads to be used a lot - change parts in machines. Must have fitted tens of thousands - very tiny failure rate. As one point, due to an abnomaly in our systems, we were fitting them, taking them out to have parts anodised, then fitting new ones!
Only used...
For a laugh I put my numbers in.
91 Lancia 15mpg average - ok
79 Dutton on SU carb - ok.
01 Caterham - fuel injected, cat, 35 mpg - not okay.
16 Dodge - if I'm really careful I can get it up to 22mpg on a long run - 5.7 V8 - ok. It ought to be - four cats, 16 spark plugs, emissions...
After the initial build, no-one cares anyway - maintenance just use what fits, even if it needs a longer spanner/heavier hammer to make it do so :scared:
I did get asked in Texas what "UNC" meant. I had to put full description on our drawings, as we are mainly metric, but of course in the US you don't really need to - 1/4x20 is obvious.
At least the metric fasteners we buy here tend to be to the same standard - so if you just buy hex head M8 screws/bolts, you can be reasonably sure a 13mm spanner will fit.
We still use a lot of UNC/UNF . . . even in the same box, sometimes different sized socket heads!
What I do see a lot of...
A machine screw is simply a fully threaded screw, regardless of head type.
"Set" can be used to describe all sorts of screws - head head set screw, socket head set screw, socket cap head set screw, fillister set screw . . .
Now shoulder screws . . . or bolts? I've seen both from the...
Gas Safe is nothing but a register you simply pay to be on - I could sign up online the fee, and ta-da . . . Gas Safe! I must agree to allow the "register" to check my work for a probationary period of three months - I could cause havoc in that time, and there's no certainty anyone would...
As soon as I saw "car jack" . . . one of them, I can't remember if its Jennings or Derbyshire, get's his head stuck in some railings - due to his ears, he can't get it out. They borrow a jack from an unlocked car, jack the railings apart, release the trapped person. When they go to take the...