All I wanted to do was install the Rock Solid Ram Steering Fix ! Which can be done without removing the column. First thing is to remove intermediate shaft from bottom of column. Easy right? WRONG! LOL ,the bolt head holding it on is snapped off and gone... There is almost enough of the bottom of the bolt sticking out the opposite side , but it is on an angle because the ujoint housing is round so you can't get a good grip with vise grips. Even when I thought I had a good grip on it I couldn't budge it loose. Why you ask? Because the upper part of the ujoint housing is aluminum and the freakin bolt is steel! Like the great plenum design. Where are the designers heads when the put a steel bolt into an aluminum component??? Now I have to pull the column to do what otherwise would have been a pretty easy job. Sorry for the long post, just venting. LOL I'm not really laughing right now though. :-)

 

any way you can tap it out?

 

Sorry to hear it man.Anyway you can get a stud extractor on it? Soak it up with some PBBlaster and if you can get it with the stud extractor,you may be able to get it out.

Or if you have access to a welder,you can try welding a nut over the end of the stud and then running it out with a socket.Good luck man.

 

I already thought of and would love to be able to do both of your suggestions but there is simply no room . I even have a 90 degree drill head, but it would all be done blind.

 

I'll have to deal with it Monday, because I'll be at NHMS tomorrow, I'd rather work on the truck instead of watching KB win another race. Toyotas make me gag.