Ok, so I was working on my cooling system this weekend and I got my new hose and changed my thermostate and all is going great. I was putting everything back together and tightning my themostat housing back up and noticed the top bolt wasing getting my housing to seal up and I knew there was this black gasget crap but that gap was too wide, I could see inside so of course I took my wrench and tightened.

Well I broke the darn bolt in half I mean wtf right? So I was wondering if how do you remove a broken bolt from an intake... I spent too much damn money on that intake and it's not going to go. I'm hoping I don't have to pull it because I wont have the time for another week and it's my daily drive. any options left to me?

btw, first time this has hapened and I'm ticked. I thought this was going to be my easy project.

 

if you have any "thread" sticking out, put a nut on it. Then, put some weld on it. gob it. Then, remove.

 

if there isnt any bolt sticking out then just drill a hole in it and try using an "easy out" but dont break that easy out

cause then your in trouble

 

Cant you pull the intake off and then attack the half of the bolt that is sticking out of the block with a small monkey wrench or some vice grips.. Thats what I would try..

 

hmm there is a tad bit, hopefully I can get a thread or two to stick. when you say weld you mean jb weld? or something of the sort?

I don't think the other half of the bolt sticks through on the inside of the intake it has it's own space so to speak.

 

Dude. Keep it simple. Take a short handled, fat tipped flat headed screwdriver and try backing the busted stud off with that. See what that does for you. More often than not it works for me.

Did you break the bolt because you bottomed it out? Was the hole goobed up? Why did it break?

If you need to, just tap it out. I think the factory size is a 5/16" bolt. Take it to 3/8"and jam if you boned it up.

Ask me how I know this....

 

Well actually I'm not surew why it broke, there was still space between the therm housing and the intake and it was moving smoothe and then it felt like I stripped the bolt around the outside, when I went to get ahold of it again it just spun so I took a loot and just broke clean in half.

 

is it the bolt that came out of the housing?

if it didnt take much to break the bolt then it might not take much to get it out, but my guess is that the bolt was to long and bottomed out

 

well if you look at the part that was sheered you can see it's rusted all the way around and then just a tiny silver spot of good metal in the middle so it's hard to tell if it was old or if I just over torqed it or it bottomed out.

 

This is what I would do. If the bolt was not "crossed" it should come out easy,, you might be surprised how easy... (I hope you are surprised like this anyway!!)

just get that hole dead center, just in case things don't go well, you can drill it out all the way and carefully re-tap the threads... this is very tricky, but it can be done...

<<(if the bolt is stainless steel it is going to be hard to drill, so extra effort on other means of extraction should be exhausted before drilling.)>>