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Author Best way to remove a rounded 8mm bolt
Steve
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19th Apr 10 at 17:27   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Bolt holding my abs sensor on is seized and rounded off now, best way to get it off? is there a tool you can get before i smack an imperial socket over it
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19th Apr 10 at 17:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
cut a groove into it and remove like a screw?
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19th Apr 10 at 17:31   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i reckon it would just crumble if i done that, think 8mm too small for that
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19th Apr 10 at 17:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
enough space to get a pair of small mole grips on there?

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19th Apr 10 at 17:36   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
hmm not really i reckon again it would just squash and crumble
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19th Apr 10 at 17:37   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
whats a stud removal tool
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if you snap the head of a boly of you screw it onto the thread and it wonds it out, is it a bolt or a nut your trying to take of?
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quote:
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hmm not really i reckon again it would just squash and crumble


the sensor bolt on mine tore off, in the end i had to take it to a garage for them to get abit of heat on it and loosen it off with mole grips.
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19th Apr 10 at 17:41   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
bolt
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was gonna say you can cut down either side of a nut, heat needed tbh
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hammer
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Just bang a smaller socket on like a real man
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quote:
Originally posted by andyc1234
Just bang a smaller socket on like a real man
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19th Apr 10 at 17:57   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i reckon a 5/16 is the closest smaller size to a 8mm
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http://www.irwin.com/tools/browse/screw-bolt-extractors/bolt-extractors
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19th Apr 10 at 18:16   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
thats what i need do them at halfords?
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Ive used the irwin ones and they work got mine from screwfix
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19th Apr 10 at 18:34   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
got em for 17 quid
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19th Apr 10 at 19:57   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i snapped the abs sensor on ST so removed the hub and drilled into the middle with a 3 mm drill bit, used a small allen kyey, hammered it in and then unscrewed, jobs a good un
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smack a 7mm socket on there and use some heat
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Smear some cutting paste on the bolt then hammer on an imperial/whitworth socket.
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or if you have a welder weld a big blob on the bolt and the molegrips will then grip it and the heat from the weld will help it undo
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The heat will also make the plastic on the ABS sensor go bye-byes!
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19th Apr 10 at 20:03   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
then say good bye to being able to get it out the hole
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lol didnt think about the abs plastic its just what i generally do if i get a siezed bolt first i try a smaller socket then if that fails the welder comes out but obviosly not near plastic

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