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albsvx:
I was just under my YJ greasing all my grease fittings, and the one on the expansion joint of my rear driveshaft was missing.

I tried putting a new one in, but the hole is all stretched out, and it's not in there good enough to hold and grease.

anybody got any genius ideas for me?  I'm thinking jb-weld or epoxy-putty.  Anything else?

I was missing 3 other grease fittings, but those all screwed back in just fine.

Heh, guess maybe I should stop hitting things with my grease fittings.

rocket:
heli-coil.  they work well, even in soft metals (aluminium).

albsvx:
the material is really thin (like sheetmetal), and there isn't a lot of space "behind" it ... I'm not sure I'd have any luck drilling and tapping without making things much worse.

Cheek-Bone:
they sell fittings with different size bigger diameter where the threads are, I had the same problem on the front d.s. on the blue one. NAPA

albsvx:
yeah, I may try that first, I'm just not sure if it's opened big enough to get the next size up in there, and I don't really think I want to be drilling in there (probably not good to be getting metal shavings in a space that's normally greased.)

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