Starter Bolt Help

[1973RallyeWPG]

Hi,

I have a 1973 charger with 440 BB. My starter bolts have come loose and both seem stripped. As if the bottom one will just barely catch and the top nut just spins on the stud bolt instead of tightening... I was looking at some diagrams and I was just wondering is the stud bolt and nut supposed to be on the bottom (oil pan) while the normal one is higher up and mine are in the wrong spots? At this point I guess the best course of action would be to get new OEM bolts? I know a mini-starter is the way to go in the future.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[John_Kunkel]

The stud/nut always goes on the bottom...on auto trans cars, the bracket for the cooler lines goes under the nut. The top bolt is the captive-washer type.

If the threads in the case are stripped, they will need to be repaired with Heli-coils or, sometimes, a slightly longer bolt or stud will catch the remaining threads.

[1973RallyeWPG]

Ok, thank you for the information... so then mine are in the wrong spots. So I guess I should try and get new bolts and take the starter off and replace with them in the proper spots and everything will tighten up.

[70 sublime]

If you look at the picture the stud has fine thread on one end

If some how the stud got moved they would have put the coarse thread end into the hole first with the fine thread out ?
Maybe a fine thread nut is all you need to make it tighten ?

Going to be a pain to work on up in that area whatever you do   

[1973RallyeWPG]

Yea its not fun. I have managed to get a socket on it though. So my plan is to buay a different nut tonight and see if I can maybe combo that with a washer on the stud so it at least holds it for now and just hope my half a threat of bottom bolt holds. And yes, not looking forward to having to remove the stud if it comes to that.