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Aidan wrote:yes but if you say it quickly it sounds easy doesn't it

sharpe small chisel ,put a slit in the ends of the bolts, use a flathead screw driver and unscrew them , they should not be tight , if the heads are completely off, there also should be enough movement to possibly get a super thin cutting blade in there on the grinder and cut them again but at flange level!

If I could undo my CV bolts with a screwdriver, they sure aren't done up tight enough - unless you've got a screwdriver the size of a mini

He's right - without the heads the bolts are no longer under tension therefore will be loose. Mine that were snapped off could be undone just by turning it with a small jewellers screwdriver on a rough bit of bolt.

Don't understand what/how a stud extractor works.

jaylo

you won't need one - follow advice above. you may get enough grip by friction alone with a flat bladed screwdriver to turn studs out.

Makes me wonder if some muppetry's studloc'd then in ?

CovKid wrote:you won't need one - follow advice above. you may get enough grip by friction alone with a flat bladed screwdriver to turn studs out.

I even did that with some sheared flywheel bolt threads ... and you know how tight they are !

I wasn't being serious Ian. Clearly if heads are gone it doesn't apply. Mind you I had no end of trouble with the allen types, not being able to get enough purchase to torque them up. After at least three occasions being stranded at junctions I switched to splined bolts. Amazed this CV joint doesn't move though. If they've been on a long time, a gentle tap with a hammer normally breaks any seal. Bolts could be slightly bent though I suppose. Either way I'd have got that shaft out by now. For the time it takes to unbolt the box, it could all be on the bench and we'd be discussing some other hypothetical nightmare.

You obviously have not appreciated how much I can procrastinate..................and how much I hate crawling under a wet van when I could be on a warm climbing wall.........

jaylo

I have a wee paint picture I want to put in my post, can anyone tell me how to do that ?

jaylo

post it in any picture server or use the hosting space you get with a Brickyard account and then stick the link to the picture in a img box in your post

eg [img ]http://www.picturehostingsite/this%20is%20the%20picture[ /img]

I use the brickyard method as you get 10Mb over there (100kb max size per picture) and I tend to duplicate posts across both boards anyway, lots of free picture hosting sites out there like flikr etc...

just make sure they are less than 1000pixels wide to get them up on here

Rounded hex socket cap screws means reach for the 12-spline M8 tool and belt hard in (after cleaning out grit etc.) Undo bolt. Repeat x 5
Replace cheap poopy bolts with proper H.T. 12-splines for an easier job next time around. It may not necessarily be you, so spread the love!

Indeed. Group hug for the ground off bolts I say.