Help! Broke bolt and broken piece is stuck in there. ***pic***
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Help! Broke bolt and broken piece is stuck in there. ***pic***
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I recently lowered my TL and during installation, I broke this bolt by tightening too hard. I heard that I can drill that bolt out by using small size of drill bit, but would that be only option? Also, how do I drill that out? If someone has done it before, please help!!
So, red circle is the bolt that I broke. That bolt supports the blue circle part on rear sway.
I recently lowered my TL and during installation, I broke this bolt by tightening too hard. I heard that I can drill that bolt out by using small size of drill bit, but would that be only option? Also, how do I drill that out? If someone has done it before, please help!!
So, red circle is the bolt that I broke. That bolt supports the blue circle part on rear sway.
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It is one of the bolts that holds the bracket for the sways? You can take it to a shop and see if they will remove it for $10 to $20. I needed them to rethread one of them once.
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Originally Posted by Bxscig
It is one of the bolts that holds the bracket for the sways? You can take it to a shop and see if they will remove it for $10 to $20. I needed them to rethread one of them once.
I was thinking about doing it by myself, but if I buy a drill kit with the special bit to drill that broken bolt out, I will end up spending too much money.
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Yes I agree. If you're not confident that you can do the job then take it to someone to have it done.
BTW - the bolt extraction kit is less than $30....a far cry from being spendy.
BTW - the bolt extraction kit is less than $30....a far cry from being spendy.
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center punch the bolt as close to center as possible. drill it without hitting the exsisting threads. get an easy out for your newly drilled hole. slowly try backing it out. If the easy out starts to strip, stop & heat the piss out of that area with a mapps torch or something. tap that easy out back in as deep as possible. Should come out. if not you might have to redrill & tapp. good luck!!
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