Sheared off bolt...

[Will]

Point taken...this is why you're a mechanic and I usually don't bother messing (hence the bricking it comment)

I did use an easy out succesfully on a sheared off duratec cam cover bolt, which was about the size mentioned, difference was these bolts were some blingy anodised metal and soft as cheese (not steel then) and the one that snapped sheared off at way less than the recommended torque setting.

Much swearing ensued, and praying not to get any swarf anywhere bad as the head cover had to come off to drill (lots of plumbers tape used to stop it getting into the head/cam area). All anodised bolts were subsequently cursed at, binned, and stock ones refitted. Lucky/foolish - you can delete as appropriate.

 

[4T5]

Superglue another screw on and wind it out.

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Cheers for that, I nearly died laughing but I hung on in there to post this.

 

[bledd]

Ha

Great timing!

 

[Fuzz]

Well he certainly butchered that hole..
If it was that loose afterwards I'd have redrilled it and put a helicoil in there.

The other thing is I don't like easy outs for the simple reason of the way they work.
For them to "bite" into the stud you are trying to extract they have to put pressure on the sides of the stud which force it tighter into the sides of the hole you are trying to extract it from. The more you lean on it, the more it bites, the more it pushes out sideways, up until the easyout snaps off.

With a decent TIG welder I could have built up a little mound of metal on that recessed stud and then put the nut over that afterwards and continued to fill in the centre.
Would have saved all that drilling and tapping faff.

 

[Dandle]

Well he certainly butchered that hole..
If it was that loose afterwards I'd have redrilled it and put a helicoil in there.

The other thing is I don't like easy outs for the simple reason of the way they work.
For them to "bite" into the stud you are trying to extract they have to put pressure on the sides of the stud which force it tighter into the sides of the hole you are trying to extract it from. The more you lean on it, the more it bites, the more it pushes out sideways, up until the easyout snaps off.

With a decent TIG welder I could have built up a little mound of metal on that recessed stud and then put the nut over that afterwards and continued to fill in the centre.
Would have saved all that drilling and tapping faff.

Easy outs are brilliant if you can use them properly. They are used a lot in aviation where you can't risk the damage extra heat would cause. Some one above said you cant get them out if they snap either and that is untrue as you can grind them out with a fine stone on a grinder.