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Old 12-14-2013, 12:56 PM   #1
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Default Another setback averted! Broken bolt removed !

I've been buttoning up an engine, basically put together from parts I had around me. Virtually the last thing to go on was the clutch pressure plate. 6 of the correct bolts were rounded up and the clutch and plate fitted. Just putting that final little tweak to make sure they are tight and the last one snapped.

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I didn't want to take the sump pan off again, as it had already been off and on again twice(!).

I tried to drill the bolt with a drill I had resharpened to cut as a left hander but it didn't work very well and started to go a bit off centre.

I regrouped and decided to improvise a bush.

I got a short length of 5/16" brake tube and a short length of 1/4" tube. I had to drill the larger tube to fit the 1/4" tube inside.

They were pushed into the hole.


And a 3/16" drill was used to drill into the bolt. The bush was good enough to get the drilling back on centre.


I don't have any easy-outs, so I used a T30 torx bit and hammered it into the remnants of the bolt.


The bolt remnant came out successfully on the first attempt.


Here's the bolt with the retrieved end. You can see the splines broached into the end by the torx bit.


I think there is a time and place for easy-outs or my improvised version. Removing something that is rusted in place so tight that the bolt shears while trying to remove it is NOT the right application. A bolt that snaps due to material defect or overtightening IS the right place for them, as the remnant isn't tight in the hole.

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Old 12-14-2013, 01:10 PM   #2
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Pretty neat trick!
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Old 12-14-2013, 01:29 PM   #3
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Default Re: Another setback averted! Broken bolt removed !

Mart, the shoulder on that bolt looks too long, could that be why it snapped?

Clever drilling jog!
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Old 12-14-2013, 02:00 PM   #4
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Great recovery!! Things like that happen to me and sometimes I get so discouraged that I walk away from it for a week as I am too pissed off to continue. Good job.....Matt in Alameda
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Old 12-14-2013, 02:23 PM   #5
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Great "engine-unity"
And, definitely the wrong bolt. Not enough threads on it.
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Old 12-14-2013, 02:25 PM   #6
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I like stories like this with a happy ending! This shows what a cool head and good ol' redneck or yankee ingenuity can accomplish.

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Old 12-14-2013, 02:31 PM   #7
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"Yankee" ingenuity from across the pond. Mart hangs in Her Majesty's England. DD
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Old 12-14-2013, 02:39 PM   #8
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Limey ingenuity if you don't mind!.
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I'm pretty sure the bolts are the correct type, the others are the same. There's no sign of the shank of the bolt bottoming on the threads. They have to have the plain part as they are dowel bolts to position the pressure plate. I'm assuming that one must have been overtightened and overstressed in the past. I wasn't really pulling on it, I was only using a 1/4" drive rachet.
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Old 12-14-2013, 03:29 PM   #9
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Out of curiosity, I pulled a pressure plate bolt out of my spares. It looked like yours, Mart, but I pulled another and it looked like more what I expected. No markings on either, who knows which is OEM? Quite a difference in OAL and shoulder length.
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Old 12-14-2013, 03:53 PM   #10
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yes had the same problem with exhaust bolts putting them back on pulled two holes. got a heli coil kit from napa tap it out and put the heli coil in it and it worked perfict
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Old 12-14-2013, 06:19 PM   #11
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Nice work Mart. I had a kit to modify the fuel pump on a Cummins diesel engine a few years ago. Three of the four bolts to hold the top on were hex head. One was a "break-off" fastener so the pump couldn't be messed with by the DIYer. The instructions in the kit said to tap a torx bit into the hollow left from the "break-off" and turn it out with 1/4drive. Worked like a charm. I've fought with a few broken bolts since, forgetting this method. Thanks for the reminder, maybe I'll remember next time.
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Old 12-14-2013, 06:59 PM   #12
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Mart, that is a cool thing you came up with there. I'm always up for learning something new. Thanks for sharing!

So what caused it to break? and are you going to just put another one in there and hope it also doesn't break?
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Old 12-14-2013, 11:11 PM   #13
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check your bolt length part # 350433-s 5/16-18 x 25/64 used 35 to 48. NOTE.on rechecking new parts book (GREEN chassis parts book) lists # 350433-s as 5/16-18 x 25/64 BUT the 1928-1937 book lists it as 5/16-18 x 1" special hex. head bolt and I think that is right, the green book is wrong as both my reprint and original of the 28-37 book agree. Moral of story, do full research be for posting and wait till morning.

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Old 12-15-2013, 07:53 AM   #14
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I have always used the long shoulder type with lock washers.
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Old 12-15-2013, 08:28 AM   #15
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The Torx looks like a better option than the "easy out". As a machinist, we called "easy outs", "never outs " because they do one of two things, they don't get it out, and or they break off in the bolt, and then you are stuck with taking the hardened easy out and part to a machine shop with an Elox EDM machine to electrically arc burn it out. Great idea. Thank you.
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Old 12-15-2013, 11:51 PM   #16
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Awesome Mart!
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Old 12-16-2013, 09:53 AM   #17
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As cheap as they are, I like to use new bolts on pressure plates installs.
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Old 12-17-2013, 09:06 AM   #18
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As cheap as they are, I like to use new bolts on pressure plates installs.
Smart move regardless as new bolts won't have a questionable history of being overtightened or subject to repeated stress events.
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Old 12-17-2013, 09:44 AM   #19
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Around 1949 Ford eliminated the shoulder on the clutch bolts. The reason is that the major dia. Of the thread is the same as the shoulder.
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