<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">After disassembling a spare diff, bead blasting it, replacing pinion bearings and seals, carefully setting up the gear lash , etc, I torqued the bearing cap bolts on the differential carrier for the last time, and one of the holes stripped.<br class=""><div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I can put a helicoil in, but in the process I will loose the steel locating sleeve on this bolt hole that helps locate the cap. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can’t remove the sleeve without destroying it. Several questions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What’s the correct name for these “sleeves”, if I want to try to get one from McMaster Carr, or where can I get them?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are they essential or can I get buy without it? I assume these are there because they take some side thrust from the carrier, which otherwise is resisted only by clamping force and the bolt shoulder.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I could start over with another diff casing - maybe the best thing to do. Just hate to have to strip and clean another one up, press out pinion bearings, replace seals, adjust the bleepety-bleep gear lash all over again!</div></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>