Ashley's S12 Awesomeness

narrow minded · 02:19:16 PM / 21-Aug-10

Grab-its work very well, I used those on some busted exhaust manifold studs with great success, its a good idea to soak the bolt in penetrating oilfor a good day or so to help the process.

ashleyanne · 03:08:51 PM / 21-Aug-10

If you see in the reflection of my glasses, that's the furthest my arms go so psh on the picture.

I considered vise gripping it out and EZ outs. However, like I said, I have no ride anywhere so I can't really go and buy anything at the moment. My friend just woke up though, so we'll see. I'm pretty irritated by this :[

I did nap though, from the time of my last post to just now, so I'm feeling a little better about the situation. :]

narrow minded · 02:25:25 AM / 22-Aug-10

naps FTW

nice youve got a solid axle, i hope to see that LOW

hotdoghogie · 02:45:47 AM / 22-Aug-10

Quote from: ashleyanne
How else do I get the stripped allen bolt off?

Grow a pair

Arro · 04:03:47 AM / 22-Aug-10

Heeeeey, she's just startin' out, cut 'er some slack y0 lol

ashleyanne · 09:08:14 PM / 22-Aug-10

Hater!

Bolt extractor snapped, saw that coming. No further progress

narrow minded · 09:09:22 PM / 22-Aug-10

Quote from: ashleyanne
Hater!

Bolt extractor snapped, saw that coming. No further progress

thats why grab-its are win, they dont usually snap.

another option is to use a dremel and grind some flat surfaces on the sides, that way you can get a wrench on it.

Jay · 09:14:29 PM / 22-Aug-10

Quote from: ashleyanne
Hater!

Bolt extractor snapped, saw that coming. No further progress

Extractors are junk, they rely on drilling the hole, and they push out on the sides, making the bolt tighter.

Option One: Left handed drill bit. Drills out the center, and the walls collapse, loosening the bolt, tightening on the bit and it comes right out. All in one nice, easy motion. Best size is a tad smaller than the inside diameter of the the threads, but guesses will most likely be fine
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Option Two. cut timing belt. MAPP Gas torch and a GOOD set of vice grips. New timing belt required

Option Three. Angle grinder, Cut a slit on the the surface, put a chisel or a flathead (Thicker = better, of course) as far out on the surface as possible, tap with 3 lb maul to turn it out.

Option four, cut off parts of head to make oblong with flat sides rather than a circle, same thing with chisel, flathead, or vice grips. (Mentioned above)

Option Five: Screw 20e. KA swap <- My recommendation

sam31183 · 09:48:59 PM / 22-Aug-10

ca18det swap....turbo deloreans for life!

200sxkitcar · 10:25:20 PM / 22-Aug-10

I've had this happen.

A pair of vice grips on the head of the bolt, they don't need to be super flush, just solidly on there, and loosen. Unfortunately this is quite common with the single cam CA's, if you need a new one (as always) I have several about the place, ships easy in an envelope.

With vice grips, you should be ok.

Flush all the coolant while you're at it too! There is a plug on the lower back part of the block behind the exhaust manifold, it is at the bottom rear of the water jacket and if you remove it you will drain the whole engine part of the system. don't forget teflon tape or paste when reinstalling so it doesn't leak tho.

Wolf Dilworth · 10:54:55 AM / 23-Aug-10

Carefully drill out the hole until there are just threads left inside. Using a scribe, clean as much of the threads out, then start a tap in the hole to clean out the rest. If this fails drill over sized for a thread insert.

Lotsa luck, Wolf

BoostedVG · 02:10:44 PM / 23-Aug-10

Stripped P.O.S

Weld a big nut to it and turn it out with a wrench... or grind a slot into it with a cut off wheel and use a big screw driver.

David B · 03:31:21 PM / 23-Aug-10

grind the slot off it,

then use a impact hammer/chisel and aim it diagonal to break it loose

ashleyanne · 08:03:34 PM / 25-Aug-10

Oh wow, all you guys are really helpful, I REALLY appreciate it!! It sucks, I'm going to go attempt to vise grip it right now, and see how that works. I haven't touch my car since it snapped, just been frustrated and 0 patience.

I guess that's the only downfall to being a woman who's into cars.
Cars = patience, women = no patience.

A guy friend brought me to that realization.

Wolf Dilworth · 09:50:32 PM / 25-Aug-10

Don't worry, just take ten slow deep breaths and then... Kick the dog/cat.

Wolf

ashleyanne · 10:32:45 PM / 25-Aug-10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8...feature=related

No kicking of animals! They are too cute.

hotdoghogie · 11:07:04 PM / 25-Aug-10

Quote from: ashleyanne
No kicking of animals! They are too cute.

Once upon a time I kicked my roomates dog...

sam31183 · 12:44:55 AM / 26-Aug-10

did it eat your foot and shit it out to hell?

EternalSwap · 04:37:32 PM / 26-Aug-10

it might have stripped because its not a allen, its supposed to be a torx bit, like a t45 iirc. the po might have messed it up

that shit messed me up bigtime when i was doing my timing belt ha

ashleyanne · 10:56:08 PM / 26-Aug-10

Quote from: EternalSwap
it might have stripped because its not a allen, its supposed to be a torx bit, like a t45 iirc. the po might have messed it up

that shit messed me up bigtime when i was doing my timing belt ha

Well JEEZ that's good to know. It's going to the exhaust shop tomorrow so that I can finally get that done, I'm going to see if the guy is down to weld a bit into it and pull that crap out, finally.

As for that hideous animal, ew.