Reply With QuoteSeen a few mate!Originally Posted by Blknight.aus
Lara did it during a manifold warp repair... Broke 2 in the head.
Mr Thread (serious it's his business name) came out and removed them for me.
Wizard
Thanks cobber ... at least that removes one worry ..
Seen a few mate!
Lara did it during a manifold warp repair... Broke 2 in the head.
Mr Thread (serious it's his business name) came out and removed them for me.
RoverLord
We've got a couple of similar mobs floating around the brissy area,
In all the years I've been spannering, that I recall I've never snapped a stud off trying to remove it from an alloy housing. I've snapped a few smaller ones and longer ones doing them up and had endless fun trying to get some out after the threads stripped out in the ally letting it spin.
Add that to the books then....
Dave
"In a Landrover the other vehicle is your crumple zone."
For spelling call Rogets, for mechanicing call me.
Fozzy, 2.25D SIII Ex DCA Ute
TdiautoManual d1 (gave it to the Mupion)
Archaeoptersix 1990 6x6 dual cab(This things staying)
If you've benefited from one or more of my posts please remember, your taxes paid for my skill sets, I'm just trying to make sure you get your monies worth.
If you think you're in front on the deal, pay it forwards.
Wizard
The saga has finally come to an end .........
Mate called round this morning with his kit and bingo .. in no time flat we'd removed the offending bolt. You bewdy ... fit the blanking plate, finish it all off, puting all the bits back in the right place. 2 celebratory beers and cobber's off on his merry way.
OK .. time for a quick squirt around the burbs to see if all is goodo.
Whoa ... can hear exhaust leaking so back home for a squiz and a poke around with a long screw driver. Sure enough ... it's leaking on the side where the first bolt came out easy (but didn't go back in all that smoothly). I can move the gasket so obviously not tight enough.
Out with the sockets to give it a little tweak ................ you guessed it .. PING .. off comes the head of the bolt.
On the phone to Mr Thread Fixit (anon name for the purposes of the exercise, but a top bloke) and a lazy $100 cash later he's got it all fixed up smick and proper.
Go for another run around the burbs and all is well ... almost. Stopped at some lights and when I take off I hear this sound like something might have fallen off ... treat it with ignore and continue.
Get back home and proceed to pack all my tools away ... no sign of my largest screw driver ....
Now I know what the noise was ...
Member
Nightmare!
I've done a test-drive round the block - and got back to find a hammer and two spanners still on top of the wing.
Scott:
Maybe one of these would be the best option to get the factory look you want without replacing the pipe.
Member
I just rounded the hex on the lower bolt on mine .....
Wizard
I feel your pain cobber ....
At least none of you have broken your finger like when I did the install
Then you'd feel pain....
That was a lesson learnt!
RoverLord
you cant leave that one hanging, If I'd said it there'd be a flood of requests for a chapter on it.
spill the beans, how'd you manage that?
Dave
"In a Landrover the other vehicle is your crumple zone."
For spelling call Rogets, for mechanicing call me.
Fozzy, 2.25D SIII Ex DCA Ute
TdiautoManual d1 (gave it to the Mupion)
Archaeoptersix 1990 6x6 dual cab(This things staying)
If you've benefited from one or more of my posts please remember, your taxes paid for my skill sets, I'm just trying to make sure you get your monies worth.
If you think you're in front on the deal, pay it forwards.
Member
Problem fixed now. It was the bottom of the two allen bolts that fit into the exhaust manifold that turned out to have a head made of cheese…
The allen bit just turned and rounded it out, so I tapped in a torx bit, and that just rounded it out that bit more. So I tapped in the next size and of course that rounded too.
I did think about cutting the pipe to improve access and see if I could get a pair of grips on it - but then I'd be committed to getting it done and I needed the truck for work the next day.
So I used a hack saw blade and started to cut a slot into the head - I had about 5-10mm of movement - so I did that until it was becoming mental torture and packed in for the night. I figured I'd drive it up to my friends, cut the pipe off, and try to weld a bolt onto the head.
Next morning I thought I'd have another go with the hack saw blade and realised I'd made half decent progress the night before. So I tapped in a screwdriver bit and turned the ratchet … and it started to round off the head.
Oops - running out of options. So I knocked in the largest scredriver bit I had - started to turn - it started to round … so I reveresed it and tightened it up a bit and then BINGO - it came un-done.
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