#1
|
||||
|
||||
My knuckles are raw!!! HELP
Made the absolute school boy error today used a size35 torx bit instead of a size 40 by mistake, wondered why the bolt wasn't giving purchase and yes you guessed it rounded the begger!!!
And of course is in a real tight spot (EFI inlet manifold bolt under the throttle body) any suggestion before I put my hammer through the front wing? Matt |
#2
|
||||
|
||||
Matt,
Knee jerk answer could you weld a bolt onto the rounded torx bolt. Tell me I am not talking out of my ar** Cheers Ginge
__________________
Sent from my iPad, from who knows where in the world I was building but I am not now! Build Pictures Build Thread |
#3
|
||||
|
||||
can't get the head of the welder in there
|
#4
|
||||
|
||||
Just when you think you are getting somewhere..... managed to drill out the centre of the bolt wedged a size 35 torx into the hole, about 5 mm deep, put the wrench on, good purchase.... happy days no ping! torx bit has snapped off in the centre of the bolt, now I got a hardened bit wedged in an already rounded out slot, I think it's fubar'd
time to sit and think!!!!! |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Bugger,
Time to carefully drill out and re thread i think, my engine has half dozen different threads where over the years a few people has tinkered with it. |
#6
|
||||
|
||||
My friends the beer is flowing tonight!!!
After 5 1/2 hours of attacking this fricken bolt I managed to get a slot through the middle, butcher up one of my old wood chisels, file two flats on the handle then carefully unscrew the bolt, this sounds a bit basic but it took 1 hour of hacksawing just to get the slot in it due to access My car will now officially be called 'the bolt'!!! the fun bit starts now working on a new EFI plenum design to bolt back up to the car Happy days!!! rapid |
#7
|
||||
|
||||
Well done that man
__________________
Sent from my iPad, from who knows where in the world I was building but I am not now! Build Pictures Build Thread |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Been there with plumbing before, every time your hacksaw slips off you feel like lying on the floor and crying
__________________
Failed builder |
#9
|
||||
|
||||
if you can reach it, grind a slot with a Dremel kind of tool, so you can use a scredriver
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|