Re:HELP! how to remove bolt???
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cike (User)
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HELP! how to remove bolt??? 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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Ok guys, I need a little help, even though I'm sure nothing like this has ever happened to any of you before 
I am removing my floorboards to put on my FWD controls. 3 out of the 4 button head bolts where stripped out.(2 bolts per side) I have drilled and easy outed the first 2. I am drilling with a smaller drill first, then a 1/4 drill.
On the last one, my small drill broke off inside of the bolt with none of it sticking out. I tried to drill out what had been done with the 1/4 drill to see if I could get the easy out to work but it isn't deep enough. Being a button head bolt there is not much to grab a hold of with a set of vice grips. and with the bolt heads being inside of the floorboard bracket like they are, there is limited space to work with.
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Re:HELP! how to remove bolt??? 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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What if you got a die grinder and ground the whole head off, pulled the floorboard, and then used vice grips on the remaining bolt?
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Re:HELP! how to remove bolt??? 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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How about trying a cold chisel and break the head off
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Re:HELP! how to remove bolt??? 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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Cike, Can you turn the mount in the direction the bolt would loosen to see if the bolt will get loose, maybe finish turning with a chisel and a hammer.Ride on, Mike.
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Re:HELP! how to remove bolt??? 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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well the situation has changed a little bit.
I tried putting my next larger size easy out in the hole to see if I could get it to grab.
I ended up breaking the head of the bolt off.
so the bracket came off. leaving a little piece of the bolt sticking out. Sounds good so far right?
the problem now is that this little piece of bolt sticking out has a 1/4 hole through the middle of it, so when I try to put vice grips on it, it tapers down and the grips slide off. The piece of broken drill is still on the inside too.
any new ideas??
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Last Edit: 2016/12/10 11:33 By cike.
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Re:HELP! how to remove bolt??? 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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my smallest pipe wrench wont grab it either.
if I could figure out how to get that drill tip out of there I could finish drilling through it and still use the easy out.
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Re:HELP! how to remove bolt??? 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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just thinking out loud, (sorta)
only think I can think of at this point is to use a die grinder to grind out the center of the bolt (and the drill tip) problem is that I don't know how much of the drill is in there, and i'm not sure if I can get die grinder tips that are small enough.
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Re:HELP! how to remove bolt??? 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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depending on how mangled the end of the bolt is I would try putting a slot that my big flat blade screw driver will fit in. I have a cutoff wheel on a angle grinder that does a good job. I don't know if a hacksaw will fit in there, but that would also work. I would also use heat to loosen up the lock tight.
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