Everybody who has worked on a car knows the pain and suffering of stripping or damaging threads. It can and will happen to anybody on a wrenching journey, and it often feels like a firm dead-end for ...

I ran into a problem while doing a top-end rebuild of the stock 350 Chevy small-block in my 1974 El Camino. I discovered while trying to reinstall a new factory-style balancer bolt and -inch-thick ...

We've all been there. You're tightening a bolt into a threaded hole and it's a bit harder than usual, and then the whole thing goes loose like the metal threads ...