The same bolt in my base model was over torqued by someone who owned the car before me. They glued it back in place and it fell out on the freeway as I was driving it around. I figure the transmission has to be pulled to do the heli-coil job appropriately.

I tried my best to do it without splitting the case, but I got a ton of metal shavings inside the case so I had no choice. I'm also believe the bolt might be some special thread as I took it to a tooling shop to have it looked at so I could buy the appropriate heli-coil kit. 250+ for this damn kit and all I used was one coil. The bolt went back in, fairly tight, so I just set some sealant on the threads and tightened it back up and haven't had a problem since.

This is a first experience for me so take that with a grain of salt. Knowing what I do now, I would try to pull the shift selector to see if I would be able to rig up an attachment to a vacuum on the inside of the case and use a right angle drill to try and keep from having to pull the transmission.

 

Thanks for the response. I’m an aircraft mechanic and think Im just going to throw some aerospace sealant around the bolt and call it a day to be honest.