Top Left Valve Cover Bolt...Sheered

kevinmcc

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2003 Mazda Protege
So, I was inspecting my timing belt since I have 75k miles on the car now and upon removing the valve cover one of the bolts snapped clean off with the head.. I tried drilling it, snapped the bit, tried to drill the old bit out and no luck.. So I just put the cover back on without that bolt...


My question is will it leak? I am concerned with this bolt because it is the one on the Timing Belt side and if it leaks it will get oil on the belt... I should of just stayed in bed this morning!
 
So I ended up just drilling EVERYTHING out and made it a size bigger, went to Home Depot to get a new bolt, nut, and washer and here was the result. Pretty happy about how it went!

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