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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    WELP, this didn't work out so well. I tapped the hole, then put in my spacer to push against, and then my 7/16" bolt and once it got snug, I started tightening it down and instead of popping the impeller off, it stripped the hole right out! So yeah at this point, I'm kind of wishing I had just...
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    NAPA had the tap for $4.50 and I am now the proud owner of it. However if I start messing with this now, its going to turn into a whole huge thing, so I'm going to wait until the end of the week. I did VERY briefly play around with hand threading it in, and strangely the bolt goes in a lot...
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Tonight I took an imprint of the threads in the hole with some hot glue, and when I held it up to the bolt (7/16-20) I was very surprised that it lined up perfectly! It looks like its a little off on the left edge but thats just an optical illusion due to camera angle. It really was a perfectly...
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Yeah thats what I'm thinking at this point. I don't do thread tapping very often so I'm trying to decide how much of an investment in taps to make. I can just get an individual tap or I can get a whole SAE set or I can get a whole combo SAE & metric set. Decisions decisions. Next weekend I...
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Hmm well maybe I'll try my crayon thing and see if the threads are close, or way off, and go from there.
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    I don't own a tap kit, I've been asking around to borrow one but coming up empty so i'll probalby go buy a HF kit after the holidays. I also had the idea of getting a stick of hot glue or a crayon, an slightly melting it into the threads. The once it cools, popping it off and then comparing...
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Please see the previous 5 posts.
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    I'm not looking for that, I'm looking for the threading in the impeller itself, that you would use with the removal tool or with the right sized bolt, to remove the impeller.
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Are you referring to the removal tool or the bolt that holds the impeller on to the motor?
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Hmm I guess I'll have to consider re-tapping the whole, that might be the easiest solution.
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    My local hardware store has two big isles of all nuts and bolts. But alas, they only had even numbered mm bolts, no 11mm at all. I grabbed a 10mm just to see but it fit right through the hole without engaging the threads at all.
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    The whole project will be a youtube video some day. I don't have any idea what the camshaft is going to look like, but what I do know is: The camshaft is plastic The engine was running well when I first started it up. It died and had zero compression when I tried to restart it. The compression...
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Hmm maybe I'll go pick up an M11-1.25 then and see if that fits any better.
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    I guess, it could be.
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Yeah but what I'm saying is that I can't get this bolt to thread into the initial threads that it is supposed to engage with. Once I can get it to engage, I can throw any old rod in the hole to act as a spacer/pusher so I don't to any damage to the threads on the motor shaft. But I can't do that...
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    Yeah I don't get it, 7/16-20 is what this bolt is and the threads aren't right at all. YOu have to go through the impeller threads to get to the crankshaft threads so I'm nowhere near those.
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    I don't need the whole tool. I just need a simple short bolt to thread i to teh impeller. I can use a piece of rod or something else to be the "insert" it pushes against. Plus the reviews on that thing to not look good. And it looks like there are more than one threading these impellers have so...
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    Yardvacuum Impeller Removal

    So I watched a bunch of youtube videos for removing the impeller off my machine. This is so I can ultimately take the motor off and open it up because I think it overheated and melted it's camshaft. But anyway.... Multiple videos say to use a 7/16" - 20 bolt. So I go pick one up and when I go...
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