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Originally Posted by tim
You are looking in the wrong places if you can find a tap in that common of a size. Look in the yellow pages under machine supplies and start calling. Just like auto shops call parts stores for parts, machine shops can call suppliers for tooling. At the last machine shop I worked at we always had a wait a day for our vendor to make the trip down from the TC area because there werent many in southern minnesota.
If you really cant find anything Sears sells a thread repair kit that contains that size. The only thing is that it is a complete kit and not really cheap.
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heh no one carries this tap bro. Sears + auto stores don't even LIST this tap. I work at a machine shop and we don't have this tap. I found one machine / tool equipment store that can get them but it will take over a week to get it. I'm sure there are other stores that may have one even in stock, but I work normal business hours so getting to a store not in burnsville just isn't happening.
The ARP 5mm opening is getting stripped on 3 of my head studs!!! I'm gonna cry. We just re tapped a couple holes with a old head stud that had a 10mm opening so it's alot stronger than the ARPS 5mm. That seemed to do the job. Now I just have to figure out how to get the other ARPS back out and in again :P I might just buy new ones.
A couple seem like they are in as far as they go but they arent completely equal as far as how much of the stud is still sticking through the head. Is that normal? Is the ARP supposed to bottom out or just go in a ways.. This guy threw away my directions! I'll probably call ARP to see wtf the deal is.
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