The plastic mounting port was blown out of the aluminum coolant crossover of the plastic intake manifold

2000 MERCURY MARQUIS
170,000 MILES • 4.6L • V8 • 2WD • AUTOMATIC
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CHARLES MALESEV
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If I use 2 part JB Weld to reinstall the plastic mounting port into the aluminum coolant crossover and then also use J B Weld to reinstall the brass fitting into the plastic mounting port that the temperature sensor screws into and then use locktight on the sensor's threads, would you consider this a good repair?
Dec 30, 2017 at 7:05 AM
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STEVE W.
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If it holds it is a good repair. If it hold long enough to get a replacement part it has done its job.

However, I would not do that repair on a customer vehicle. Just not something I trust on a vehicle I do not own, mainly because telling the customer to "watch this part here as it could come apart because I just glued it together" does not engender trust.

Dec 30, 2017 at 8:11 AM