I was working on bolting up the water pump and alternator onto the front of the mav started tightening one of the bolts on the water pump and the bolt broke off... no big deal... so i pull the front cover off... drill it... put the ease out in... twist to get it out and SNAP!!! ease out broken flush with the bolt.. which is flush with the front cover gasket surface... anyone know any way to remove that ease out? no drill bit ive used will even scratch the surface!! someone please help... i really wanna get this thing rolling
I did the same thing on an exhaust bolt and the way I got the broken piece was to use a hammer and center punch to tap on it in a clockwise rotation and it fell out after a couple of taps, if you can get to it well enough that may work.
They are really HARD! If it wont back out, you will have to try and get it to shatter. Hammer and a Punch and hope God is smiling on you.
Sell the car as scrap and search ebay for new one. Sorry, it is a lost cause... Sometimes they will come loose with a punch coming out backwards, sometimes you gotta chip it out piece by piece. Good luck.
small Round burr bit on a die grinder will cut through it just center it and keep at it! been there and done that
what material was the one you used made of? anyone think a silicon carbide grinding stone for a dremel will do? would try it but i havent made it back out to where the car is yet
Usually they are such hard material that they are brittle, so you can put a punch on them and shatter them, and pull the bits out one by one. Get them all out before you run your next item in, or they will shatter your drill bit or tap.
well the break it into a million pieces technique didnt work... i think its in there too tight to break... all it did was hit it further back in there until it bottomed out... if the carbide doesnt work im just gonna put the engine out of my wrecked fox body in it and call it a day
Are you using a reverse drill bit type ez-out? If so, one last thing you might try. They make a tap-remover. Basically looks like a small group of stiff wires that you can feed around the grooves in a tap, and crank it out. Not sure if you could get one of those to work or not. I hate when a decent project gets a major roadblock from a simple two-bit fastener failure. Found a picture of "tap extractor"
scooper, after a couple good hits from that center punch the easeout became so tight inside the bolt theres no gap at all around it
