Ryany and MontyMcV, those might be good points if there were some recourse in through those channels, but I don't believe there will be. After very carefully examining it, there is some rust contributing to the thread breakdown. Their mechanic might even have torqued things to where they should have been and that very pressure might have blown out some of the threads so I could have been premature in blaming him for not enough torque, I have no way of knowing at this point.

When the bolt broke initially, they wanted to simply take the truck back and send it to a wholesaler. I learned about the bolt from this site and how it is (normally) not too big a deal. I got the prices for parts and talked them in to doing it. If they were to do anything, I am sure it would be at this point simply to give me back my money and take the truck back. That would leave me back at square one looking for another, not to mention I would be out the money I have put in to it so far (mostly cheap stuff like a whole lot of cleaning, all the fluids, etc, but still..). I would also be entering a new world of question marks with another truck since none of them have all that much fewer miles. Which is worse, the demon you do know (bolt/bolt hole), or the demon you don't (valves, abuse, bad tranny/transfer, etc)? I bought the vehicle knowing full well that at some point in the next couple of years I would rebuild the engine or swap to a diesel. The only crap part is I cannot do a rebuild, even just the crank, right now. After spending last night and this morning reading all I can, it seems that it is perfectly possible to repair the threads by one of several different methods. I have talked to two people who have had several years of use with lots of threadlocker and not much else. I have also talked to a number of nut and bolt specialists about things like Helicoils, Thread-sets or thread-sets, and others. It seems I can get it done, it's just going to be a huge pain.