How to find a replacement engine bolt without measuring another one
Dropping and losing an engine bolt during a repair leaves you stranded when local or official parts sites do not sell single replacement bolts individually. This stops you from finishing the repair without having to remove a matching bolt from the engine to measure it first.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Taking off another one of the bolts and measuring it
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Does anyone have any godly idea as to where I can buy a singular engine valve cover bolt for the rear engine? I can't even find them on official Ford parts sites.”source ↗
“I just replaced the water pump on my 2007 Honda CRV and as I was (blindly) putting the last bolt in it slipped off the wrench and for the life of me I cannot find it.”source ↗
Where this came up
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