I foolishly over torqued some cap screws on my H-Sport Camber plates. When trying to remove one of the screws in the bearing cover I stripped the Torx head slot. So, trying to get the bugger out I drilled a hole an attempted an EZ out which promptly snapped off in the hole. Now what? Every drill bit i've tried won't seen to even scratch the EZ out remnants so I can try again. Suggestions?

Sorry abouth the thread title. Evidently you can't edit title spelling once posted. Maybe I should go back to bed.

 

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got any diamond tiped drill bits? u might have a shot at using one of those to drill it out. otherwise if you still have a head on the screw u should simply use a pair of lock jaws.

 

yeah sounds like you need to use a really good pair of needle nose vise grips. and clamp it on there real tight and hope it comes loose. if not you might have to take a small grinder and grind the head off of the screw and then just esay out the rest of the screw thats in there.

 

one other stupid idea I had was to get a left hand thread die to fit on the screw and then install a nut on the top of the old screw. Use the new nut to untighten the old screw. It's an old trick that works if you have some thread if not. do you have a welder? A tack weld on the screw and nut would do it to

 

Some good ideas. Thanks.

 

welding something on it will work the best...I have done that from many things on a car and it works great.

-Josh

 

Oh, yeah, that's a gumption trap for sure if you don't have the answer.

I snapped the head off a bolt on my camber plates yesterday afternoon. Having been there and done that many times, I just whislted a happy tune, doused the offending bolt with AeroKroil (the best thread loosener I've ever used), dug out my Dremel tool and an extension cord, and proceeded to use a cutting disk to cut a slot in the end of the bolt that was flush to the mounting pad.

By the time I got done cutting a nice little slot, the Kroil had done it's work and I was able to use a screwdriver to unscrew the snapped off bolt.

I then took that brittle, snapped off SOB and threw it as far into the swamp as I could.

I never use easyouts if I can avoid it. They're brittle, as you found out, and are harder than most drill bits. An awful lot ot the time, people use the wrong size easyout. Usually if somebody picks the wrong size they pick one that's too big. The oversized hole in the bolt leave too thin a wall and instead of unscrewing the snapped off bolt, the too-big easyout bulges out the thin wall of the hole in the bolt, completely locking the bolt in place.

 

Kroil is some good stuff. WD 40 on steroids

 

Follow up.

I had to grind off the bolt with diamond tipped stone which also damaged the anodized bearing cover

Good news is, H-Sport sent me a full set of new bearing caps and bolts for each side of my car for FREE. H-Sport is OK in my book. It is good to deal with such customer service oriented companies.

 

nice customer support.