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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:32 am 
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Over the last few years I have had trouble with the drive camlock bolts on my 2004 Outback popping out at the most inopportune times. I carry an allen wrench with flotation in the seat bag. I guess that I probably should have addressed the problem sooner but now I am looking for advice as to how to secure bolts in semi stripped holes. I have checked the bolt columns inside the hull and they are intact and fairly straight. The boat has it's original V1 drive and flippers. I have removed the bolts and cleaned the holes with alcohol Qtips on a stick and compressed air. I am debating weather to use something thin like (contact cement) or thicker (Lexcel) or expansive (gorilla glue) or something hard (j b weld). As y'all know polyethylene has the same molecular composition as paraffin wax and nothing will stick to it. Are there any oversized bolts available? What seems to be the the best remedy currently available? I hope that I will not have to install the bolts permanently but that is certainly an option. I thank y'all for any advice I can get.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 2:14 pm 
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For that I tried whatever was on hand -- maybe JBWeld. It seemed to do the job. It's important to clean and blow dry the inside of the cam columns first. You don't need a lot of epoxy because there isn't much empty space -- drop a little in the columns and screw in the bolts. Watch out for any surplus epoxy oozing out the top and freezing the cams. If so, just rotate the cams every half hour or so while the epoxy sets up so it fails to bond to the cams. The nice thing about the epoxy is, if you ever have to remove the bolts in the future, I think you could without hurting anything. Once set, I never had to move or adjust anything and it held with no issues. If you need to get some epoxy, I like the Loctite Marine Epoxy -- doesn't seem to break down over time.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:43 pm 
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Thanks for that Matt.


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