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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: Guy90 on April 11, 2005, 21:40:19

Title: Driving Member
Post by: Guy90 on April 11, 2005, 21:40:19

One of the bolts holding the driving member has sheared flush with the surface. Need to get it off as I have wheel bearings to do. They wetre glued in with something :cry:

Any tricks to get it out without cutting the driving memeber off? Tried heat. Didn't work (but then never does) and a stud extractor but the brand new drill bit made no impression on the shaft of the bolt.

Guy

Title: Driving Member
Post by: davidlandy on April 11, 2005, 22:00:51

undo the other 4 then maybe you can get a grip onto it to undo it - or we can weld a bolt to whats left of it to get it off.

Title: Driving Member
Post by: Guy90 on April 11, 2005, 22:45:22

Quote from: "davidlandy"

undo the other 4 then maybe you can get a grip onto it to undo it - or we can weld a bolt to whats left of it to get it off.

Tried that. No joy. May have to weld something on. Will need to be a good one. It's stuck fast.

guy

Title: Driving Member
Post by: Henry Webster on April 12, 2005, 10:15:56

Welding a nut on - or a bar has been successful for me in the past with this problem.  Combination of intense local heat and the ability to put decent torque through it usually works!

H

Title: Re: Driving Member
Post by: scooby on April 12, 2005, 21:06:55

Quote from: "Guy110"

One of the bolts holding the driving member has sheared flush with the surface. Need to get it off as I have wheel bearings to do. They wetre glued in with something :cry:

Any tricks to get it out without cutting the driving memeber off? Tried heat. Didn't work (but then never does) and a stud extractor but the brand new drill bit made no impression on the shaft of the bolt.

Guy

you can buy a tap tool to do the jod where you drill a small hole then place the tool into the hole and with a revise fred it will pull it out.