Stripped bolt
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Stripped bolt
Horrible whine coming from powersteering pully. I assume this means the bearings bad. From the look of it the pully is pressed on so i was in the process of removing the entire pump when i stripped one of the bolts and i cant get it off....any ideas? ...and yes i was using a 6pt socket
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RE: Stripped bolt
Here are a couple ideas I posted on a different post
Make sure you get good ones if you break that off in there then your really screwed cuz good luck drilling that. Did it break off flush? If not try to get a pair of vice grips on there make sure your vice grips have really good teeth or go get a new pair you want them o bite in really good. also something else you can do if you know how to weld fairly well is a welder trick, if its flush or even a tiny bit in there is to get a nut about the same inside diameter as the bolt then with a 7018 rod or a mig (GMAW) start welding the nut to the bolt make sure your welding pretty hot to keep your slag floating if you get slag entrapment the nut could break off, start by welding I little circle in the middle the work your way out and weld it till the nut is full or if its small about half full and the nut is glowing red hot. Don’t try to take it out right away! It will most likely break off if you do. Let it cool in still air until you can put your hand on it comfterbley then try using a hand ratchet or wrench back it off. when you are doing this its doing 2 things #1 is obvious your putting something on the broken bolt to take it out with #2 what you don’t see is since your heading the bolt up it is expanding right, well since it is threaded in it cant expand around so it expands up and down now when it cools it keeps this new shape and gets a tiny bit smaller so the bolt isn’t as tight in the hole this is called "upset dimensions". if you know what your doing it works great but if you aren’t sure of your self and your welding ability don’t do it, I prefer this to using easy outs or extractors because if you break the nut off after you weld it on you most likely will break off the easy out too its much easer to drill it out and use a heli-coil if you break off the nut then having to drill out an easy out. Just some food for thought from experience
Make sure you get good ones if you break that off in there then your really screwed cuz good luck drilling that. Did it break off flush? If not try to get a pair of vice grips on there make sure your vice grips have really good teeth or go get a new pair you want them o bite in really good. also something else you can do if you know how to weld fairly well is a welder trick, if its flush or even a tiny bit in there is to get a nut about the same inside diameter as the bolt then with a 7018 rod or a mig (GMAW) start welding the nut to the bolt make sure your welding pretty hot to keep your slag floating if you get slag entrapment the nut could break off, start by welding I little circle in the middle the work your way out and weld it till the nut is full or if its small about half full and the nut is glowing red hot. Don’t try to take it out right away! It will most likely break off if you do. Let it cool in still air until you can put your hand on it comfterbley then try using a hand ratchet or wrench back it off. when you are doing this its doing 2 things #1 is obvious your putting something on the broken bolt to take it out with #2 what you don’t see is since your heading the bolt up it is expanding right, well since it is threaded in it cant expand around so it expands up and down now when it cools it keeps this new shape and gets a tiny bit smaller so the bolt isn’t as tight in the hole this is called "upset dimensions". if you know what your doing it works great but if you aren’t sure of your self and your welding ability don’t do it, I prefer this to using easy outs or extractors because if you break the nut off after you weld it on you most likely will break off the easy out too its much easer to drill it out and use a heli-coil if you break off the nut then having to drill out an easy out. Just some food for thought from experience
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RE: Stripped bolt
Just curious...was it a Craftsman socket/wrench?
For future reference, take a small ball peen hammer and punch and smack the head of the bolt a few times before even trying to remove.
I'm gonna guess its a steel bolt into aluminum threads...alot of broken Torx sockets before i figured this one out...hope it can save everyone a little time and a lot of messed up bolt heads
For future reference, take a small ball peen hammer and punch and smack the head of the bolt a few times before even trying to remove.
I'm gonna guess its a steel bolt into aluminum threads...alot of broken Torx sockets before i figured this one out...hope it can save everyone a little time and a lot of messed up bolt heads