Thread: Help Identify A 10mm Bolt Missing Its Hole...

Doesn't look like locktite, but more like teflon tape. That looks like the bolt that holds the pulley onto the tensioner. But you'd know if you were missing that.

When you say 10mm, is that the head size or bolt size?

White is typically the color of factory teflon. Which you'd only find in a coolant jacket. The shoulder of the bolt makes it not a LIM bolt w/o question. Possible places you'd find this bolt are holding the passenger side engine mount into the head, maybe the SC belt tensioner held to the block. But the shoulder looks more engine mount than tensioner. or.. a timing cover bolt right below the outlet for the radiator hose and the other side at that same level on the engine.

I'm thinking.. and now that you've narrowed the area, that helps.

What year is the car? I'd have to say.. that looks like a caliper bolt. They aren't 10mm heads though.

There aren't many 10mm shouldered bolts in the engine bay. Is there a chance you guys found a bolt laying on the subframe etc and put it into the bin? I have seen this happen before.

Hey.. I just figured it out. Check that head size with an actual socket. It's 11mm isn't it.

Logan... You never saw the threads I put up when I got bored? Stump BillBoost, literally asked people to post bolts and I'd tell them where they went. It's something you do after...you've worked on a platform too much.

I finally got my head off the motor/trans and thought about how someone may have done this differently that I would.

If that's the bolt I believe it to be.. he left the rack on the subframe when he lowered it.

thats the shaft bolt then for the intermediate shaft. lift the boot and put it back in.

and its the only 11 mm bolt i know of under the hood too.

if you put another bolt in that spot just check that its tight and not spinning free. if you made it go in aka stripped it, your best just leaving that bolt in there, the 11 mm head bolt may not work any more if the threads were different.

match it up to the egr bolt you have. see if the threads look the same.

sounds good. you could just leave it there then.

Thank you...thank you.. I'm here all week!

See.. you didn't use BillBoost procedure, then misled us on the bolt size. Aaaaaand we still figured it out!

Glad to show you the 3800 trivia that occurs from dealing with too much stuff. lol

A guy once posted a wiring harness laid out on the ground. Took close up pictures of each connector and labeled them A-whatever. That one was fun, and simple, too much work I say