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Stripped bolt

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So I noticed earlier this week my car developed a small oil leak around the valve cover gasket. To be exact, it was leaking from the secondary fuel pump cover. As I was wrapping everything up and torqueing everything down to spec and in the stages alldata calls for I was met with the unlucky feeling of one of the bolts strip. Sure enough I backed it back out and it had pulled some threads with it. Now I know ideally I should have tapped in new threads, but my tap and die set is at work. So with that being said I tightened it down as much as I could and am hoping the RTV gasket maker creates a good enough seal.

With that being said, do you think I'll luck out and be fine? I have the bolt in question circled in the picture. I'm glad it's right next to a second bolt too so hopefully it'll just be fine.
Thanks in advanced for any responses!

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Assuming that's supposed to look like the others around it, looks like there's an actual chunk missing there? Unless there's a lot of pressure, RTV Gasket Maker should hold pretty well. Believe it or not, I used the stuff to patch a small coolant hose on a prior vehicle; alternating layers of RTV/electrical tape/RTV/electrical tape/RTV/electrical tape. (the hose was a permanent mount to an engine part)
 


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Assuming that's supposed to look like the others around it, looks like there's an actual chunk missing there? Unless there's a lot of pressure, RTV Gasket Maker should hold pretty well. Believe it or not, I used the stuff to patch a small coolant hose on a prior vehicle; alternating layers of RTV/electrical tape/RTV/electrical tape/RTV/electrical tape. (the hose was a permanent mount to an engine part)
I believe that ‘chunk’ is just from the angle I took the picture from and the fuel injector is just in the way. My thought process is the same though, I would imagine that there’s enough pressure since the circled bolt is the one that stripped the threads is right next to another bolt. I had a mercedes that had like 2/3 stripped valve cover bolts from the previous owner that never leaked from good ole rtv.
 




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