Air box screws

[BioBanker]

A few of the bolts holding the airbox cover on (not the airbox to the car) on my 02 with 22k miles on it broke and the anchoring bolt on the bottom of one is stripped. Turn the top screw and you can see the assembly rotating at the bottom.

Go figure.

My question is if I want to replace all of the bolts and the screws, am I able to get at the anchored bolts at the bottom or is the whole thing fixed and I need a new airbox?

These are the screws for the cover.

TIA

 

[BioBanker]

Ok, so I pulled the airbox out and what I need are the rivets on the lower casing that are the female end to the screws on the top of the casing. I called the dealer and the rivets are not available individually. I think that instead of getting a lower air filter casing that Ill rig something up myself, or buy a used airbox.

Anyone have this issue before? Any suggestions as to what to use? The rivets come out so I can easily put some nice bolts though there, but I want something that will not rotate.

Thoughts?

 

[drew]

I would start with a thread repair kit (heli-coil, permacoil, etc...) repair, that would probably work best.

Also consider T-nuts. You'll have to find one that you can tap out to metric.

You can also use a metric wingnut, so you dremel out a hole and expoxy it in place.

Hardware stores with the large selection of specialized fasteners will also have the threaded brass inserts, but you'll have to tap it into metric (or change to SAE...which would join the other SAE fastners in the bose spears and the oil pressure threads)

Drew

 

[BioBanker]

I was able to fix temporarily fix it using regular bolts and wingnuts. Its tight and solid, but I say it is temporary because I have to remove the airbox to get at the filter, and well, it has wing nuts holding the upper casing on. Not pretty!

But it works for now.

 

[AR]

You can epoxy the lower bolts ( nuts ) in place. I got a spare box and it came with loose ones. I repaired it this way and it works fine.

Cheers,

AR