I have a 2016 f150 with 2,000 miles on it. Yesterday my charging system failed. They found a broken bolt on the belt tensioner and are now removing the front area of truck to try and extract it. If the treads are damaged they're going to put tread lock on it,has anyone else experienced anything like this?

 

They're just going to put loctite on damaged threads? This seems lazy... I would think at least run a tap through it, and replace the bolt. The tap should smooth out the damaged internal threads, and bolts are cheap... After that then I'd entertain the idea of loctite, but I'd wonder about having to potentially remove that bolt in the future.

 

Are you sure they didn't mean a helicoil. Locktite alone would not hold if the threads are shot.

 

I went to pickup a loner car and spoke to the service manager he said I miss understood him and he was saying they may have put on to much tread lock or cross treaded the bolt. The extractor snapped in the bolt and they are now changing the bracket.

 

I went to pick up a loner car and spoke to the service manager, he said I miss understood him and was saying they may have put on to much tread lock or cross treaded the bolt. The bolt extractor snapped in the bolt and they are now replacing the bracket. I don't now if there is bracket or the tensioner bolts directly to the block.