BF-er, the bolt is a conventional thread.

Monte3, sh!t happens. With the luck of the Irish, I hope to be past all this by the end of this weekend. We'll see. I'm already on the hunt for a right angle drill. As if I'll "ever" have another use for one, I'd like to buy one anyway.

It's kind of funny what happened. First, I noticed that I had no a/c. Thought I'd thrown/broke a belt. Then I noticed that the whine I've had since a couple of years ago from a bad belt idler pulley was gone and thought "hey, now I know which idler it was." Then I noticed my volt gauge was below ...WTF...? Then I went around a corner...ugggh, no power steering. NOW it was starting to baffle me. When I got to my customer's store and raised the hood, I could see all the belts were in place; uh-oh. The main pulley was just sort of sitting there, all loose and stuff.

It just took removing the fan shroud and reaching down to try to thread the bolt back in (a man can have hope at this point), then just pulling it back out to see it was snapped.

Who knows at this point how buggered up the snout is. I have a new bolt, washer and crank key lined up through Pa_Jero, so thanks. Hopefully the snout is a lot tougher than the Woodruff key.

John B.