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i broke the bolt that tights the power steering / alt , on my 95 legacy L wagon , yes it's 14mm on top, so tried to use a vise grip to put it back in ,no luck it stops and the alt belt is very loose, is there another bolt that will work or is the treads reversed ???? and i screwed it up ????

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well no long enough bolts here, so tomorrow going to the hardware store, wife has other car right now, the other part has to stay there so you can tighten up the belt,it's by the power steering pump , seems real loose even after i ran a bolt though and nut

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If you're talking about the adjusting long bolt they are like 4-5 bucks (IIR)at the dealer - and mine doesn't stock them.

 

One time I bought a bolt and had to thread it the rest of the way up. 1.25 threads (Subaru standard). I used my threaded one then swapped to the dealer one later. Original bolt had gaulded to the little aluminum gizmo that has the jamb bolt on it. When I went to do the timing belt I couldn't save it.

 

I couldn't find an off the shelf bolt at Lowes, Home Depot, Advance, or other hardware or auto parts stores. But I did find one that I could thread the balance of the way.

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Yeah, that's going to be a tough one to find locally. Long metric bolts of the size and pitch used in autos is not an easy thing to find off the shelf.

 

Get Davebugs to tell you the diameter of the bolt (m10? m12?) and get a measure on how long it needs to be then you might be able to find one on Mcmaster.com or Grainger.com or MSCdirect.com all of which would ship faster then the dealer.

 

 

Good Luck!

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86Subaru - glad you got it sorted out. I just got on to post about the bolt.

 

EVO - do you live at NAPA looking for weird stuff? I no longer have a NAPA local.

 

They were the only ones stocking a weird size helicoil set for my VW.

 

They were the only ones with parking brake shoes for a late 90's OBW(that you told me about).

 

And thay stock 1.25pitch 10mm bolts - and long ones at that ?

 

Bad news is that they are all independent so you have to call them all. They can't tell you the inventory of the NAPA in the next town.

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Bad news is that they are all independent so you have to call them all. They can't tell you the inventory of the NAPA in the next town.

 

This both their strongest and weakest point. The Napa where I lived in Oakland had EVERYTHING it seemed like. The napa I live near now doesn't carry squat for non-American makes. In fact, nobody around me really does (at least for subaru), if it's slightly obscure it's either the dealer (who always has to order) or online. Ahhh hickville!

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