any tips?

I got 3 bolts I need to drill out of a sub frame

Def cant make them budge with a mole grip on the broken end... they are far too rusted in place. All the drills I have are blunt!!

Alex

 

Use a sharp preferably new drill bit and go slow and stop from time to time to let the heat dissapate otherwise you'll fuck the drill bit. Oh and dot punch the bolt so you can get started straight

 

buy decent drillbits

 

I doubt B&Q will sell anything decent... and I need to get it sorted tomorrow!

Alex

 

B&Q sell tungsten tipped drillbits - they will do the job.

 

arr maybe all isnt lost then!

Alex

 

If theres enough protruding, weld a nut onto it then you can use a spanner

 

I'd thought of that...

but the fuel tank is about 6" above....

 

......to snap the protruding bit off flush with the hole it's screwed into!

 

Every time
But then id just drill a small hole and use my snap on bolt extractors

 

......to snap the end in the hole you drilled and make it 100 times harder to drill out!

It's a bastard when that happens!

 

Actually I gotta confess.. my cheapo extracters already did that!

Hence the blunt drills

 

Use a very fine pilot drill to make a small hole then jsut use an easy-out. Job done.

 

untill the easyout snapps

 

Easyout dont work unless the bolt has just shered of and not snapped off due to rust. Get a Dremel and use a carbide burr and grind a hole in it all the way though if you can then start to go to 1 side and just brake the pitch on the thead then use a small chisel or punch and colapse the rest of it out then run a tap up it

 

arr thats why I have NEVER got easy-outs to work...

I only ever resort to them on rusted in things! DOH!

thanks PJE!


Alex

 

if ya have any problems and im not taking the piss but speak to cowboi, hes the fooking Don at things like this, his a shit hot engineer and sorted out wheel nut for a mate of mine that we gave up on and he sorted it and also he sorted a snapped stud in the head on me spare RST engine and done it spot on first time no fooking about

some people have a skill, some people dont tbh and hes fooking genius at stuff like that

 

They are all FINE pieces of advice, but personally I would:




Throw the car off a cliff. Then it wont matter anymore.

 

I have done that Not once twise Thats whot i got from lisning to my m8 snap the first one he says thats ok you got the next size up us that So i did on one of the other studs and YEP it snaped off aswell

Well if you can weld it that means you cant get the gas in there iver Well i belive your a bit fooked Alex