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Originally Posted by 1QWIKBIRD
That would be a pretty good assesment. I took some pics of the mount (both pieces). Also are the three bolts that remained. The one on the left is really bent and was the only bolt left in the top mount at the front. The other two were in the bottom and were not exactly tight anymore. The center bolt was in the rear most lower hole and is still pretty straight, the bolt on the right was in the front lower hole and is tweaked.
Next trip was to get a heli-coil kit for 1/2x13 UNC and a 17/32 drill bit. Drilled out the upper rearmost hole, tapped the hole. Stacked two heli-coils in the new hole using red loc-tite. Pic is attached.
Picked up four new grade 8, 1/2x13 1-1/2 long bolts to reattached my new TA mount. Ordered that from Spohn $50 (seemed pretty fair to me).
To prevent this from ever happening again I am going to red loctite the bolts and saftey wire them. Went to pegasus racing and bought the jig, pliers, wire to accomplish that task. We'll see how it all comes together.
Chris
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More pics of the repaired hole nad the fracture in the lower part of the mount