Did I just kill my left case?

[Qdude79]

:wondering After stripping the phillips head screws holding the two small retaining tabs over the bearing in the left case of my '85 250R, I tried to drill and extract them. The initial reverse drilling took the heads off, but when I went with the smaller extractor trying to get the remaining piece out, all hell happened and I dug into the case. Is it toast? Do I need to look for another or can this be tapped to still use the retaining tabs? So pissed...
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[Hurricane635]

Shouldn't be a problem with a heli-coil or a timesert.

[trike savior]

agreed heli-coil's are a life saver

[Qdude79]

Never done that! I'd wanna find someone with experience to do it. Schematics from ServiceHonda doesn't give a size and pitch for those screws, either.

[barnett468]

Never done that! I'd wanna find someone with experience to do it. Schematics from ServiceHonda doesn't give a size and pitch for those screws, either.


Hello

Take it to a motorcycle shop, automotive machine shop and regular machine shop to get a price.


flat head phillips, 6mm diameter, 12mm long, 1.0 thread pitch. Honda p/n 93600-060-120A


fiche screw

http://www.cmsnl.com/honda-atc250r-1985-usa_model68/screw-flat-6x12_93600060120a/


Hope this info helps

[Qdude79]

It helps A LOT, and I appreciate the tips. I've had automotive stuff helicoiled before, but it didn't cross my mind when I screwed this up. Gonna swing it by a shop this week. Thanks again.

[El Camexican]

I'd wanna find someone with experience to do it

A wise move that should have been your first choice. They don't make a lot of trike parts anymore, best do your learning on an old lawnmower engine before taking a hand drill to a 30 year old trike case. The good news is you didn't wreck it, but do take it to small engine machine shop to get it fixed.