Ok. I had a really no good, horrible, nasty, messed up day.
My car is a 79 hatch that has been efi swapped with an 87 5.0HO. Smog pump is removed and no ac in car. Alt, ps pump and water pump are the only belt driven accessories. Also did the chevy HHR electric fan swap that i learned about here on FEP. I put the car together 6-7 years ago and I've been loving it ever since.
I was going to fix a very minor coolant leak and ended up cracking a chunk out of the block. Car was leaking from between the timing cover and the block on the passenger side, so i tore it down, replaced timing cover gasket, water pump plate gasket and water pump gasket. When tightening the water pump/ps pump bolts on the drivers side, the long bolt by the water passage was hard to install. I should have stopped and chased out the threads then, but of course i was on a hurry to finish up and tried to torque it down anyway. The threaded hole in the block cracked in half. So my stupidity i think may have caused me a lot of greif again. It looks like there was a bunch of old sealant and grease in the bottom of the hole.
Does anyone know of a fix for the block that i could do with it in the car? If i have to pull it and strip it down to take it someplace to be welded or brazzed it may just be as easy to find a new block and move all my junk onto it. but i'm trying to hold out hope that it doesn't come to that. I just spent a ton of money building myself a nice workshop and wasnt planning on spending a lot on upgrades and parts till at least next fall.
Thanks in advance for any insight you may have. This site has been great for helping sort out the tough stuff.
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