was undoing the exhaust bracket under the golf vr6 today and some of the 13mm bolt heads just snapped straight off! how do i get the rest of it out?

anyone got any links to tools i can buy?? helicoil or something

 

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I have a few ideas... first of all try "rost off crafty" from wurth, this is a realy good freeing agent to get out rusted in bolts etc, then a stud remover. Sykes picavant make a good one, it rescued one of my wifes calipers once.

Then you can use a very thin diamond tipped cutting disk on a dremmel to cut a slot into the offending bolt etc and try a screwdriver.

The last and very very dificult is to drill it out so carefully you are then able to peal the thread out of the hole leaving the other thread intact. I have not been able to do this my self and only ever met 1 person who has done that succesfully.

hope this is a good start!

 

drill them out and helicoil them

 

your local to me mate have you got a helicoil? i work in biggin hill as well!

 

Depends how much left of it you can get to... And access to it... A good pic would be better... So we can give you a better answer.

 

If there much exposed stud left? Could always weld a nut on.
If not drill a smaller hole up the centre and use a stud extractor.

 

You need to put a pic up of whats left and which part its snapped off in without seeing it its impossible to help you.

 

yes or i can do it for you as im a mobile mechanic

 

Please let it be in crayon

 

Remove everything you can so that the bit you are trying to undo will be out of the way
£20 halfords stud remover set has done every single stud I've ever encountered if I can get to it

 

Mole grip the fuck out of it. swear at it. leave it an hour. hammer it. swear some more. I'm sure it will drop out. its the method i have always used. never failed yet ha ha