hydraulic corrostion and zincs

[SrtThis]

guys

past owner neglected to fix the threaded holes for the hydraulic zincs, end result is now they are past the point i can heli-coil them. thinking about using a 2 part JB marine epoxy and "gluing" in 2 10-32 stainless studs and using lock nuts and locktite to try to slow down the corrosion.

anyone tried this?

 

[scoflaw]

Don't see that working. Can you get a larger screw to work ? Those rams pop up on craigs or ebay all the time, I'd just use them till they don't work no more and replace.

 

[SloBurn]

Epoxy will isolate (electrically) the rams from the zincs. I just used over sized sheet metal screws with the tip cut (Ground) off to expose the threads at approx. width of holes they were going into. Seems to work.