Center Pin Bolt rounded head, need to get out

[lak2004]

Just like the title says, broke 2 5/16 sockets trying to get it loose and then rounded the focking head when I used a box wrench. Anyone have an easy solution to get this bolt out? Im trying to replace wheel seals and I need to get it removed. I have seen the extractor that you can buy, but i dont think that will work for me. Thanks

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Pinion shaft bolt?

 

[lak2004]

im not sure what its called but i need to remove it to remove the c clips for the rear 10 bolt POS i have. i may just return all the parts I bought today for the 10 bolt and just get the damn 14 bolt in sooner.

 

[lak2004]

here is a picture, its the first one:

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/re...epairGuideContent.jsp?pageId=0900c1528008f4d4

 

[zombie1969]

That compleetly sucks.I had a few times when only the threaded part comes out and the pin part is stuck inside.If I had to do it again id drill the big pin in a line along the lock pin bolt and get that part out then remove the axles so the center can be removed and drill the bolt with a reverse drill bit.No mater how you do it its gona suck.Before you go nuts is it possable to hammer a 6 point socket on it and try one more time?

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

That's a center pin bolt, search for that it's pretty typical for those to strip or break when you try to remove them.

 

[sweetk30]

http://www.fabbriassociates.com/index.html

never used it but heard good things.


oh ya and some are now metric. and always use 6 point stuff. no 12 point on these.

some/most have locktight on them also. if you got heat heat up the area to soffen the locktight.

 

[lak2004]

im going to try and heat it up and then pound a different socket on. hopefully it works.

 

[Stomis]

Clean it off really good, hit it with a wire wheel to strip it down and burn a nut on it that will fit over. Welding it will both heat it up and the larger nut will give you a huge torquing force to pull the little bolt out with.

This is always my last resort for broken/stripped stuff and has never failed me.

Infact I did this on a flywheel bolt on my 5 banger diesel...

 

[lak2004]

Is it reverse threaded in or normal?

 

[lak2004]

i dont have access to a welder so im gonna try and heat it up good and go from there

 

[BadassBlaze]

Visegrips? Those have always been my last resort short of welding something on to a broken bolt or nut

 

[lak2004]

Visegrips? Those have always been my last resort short of welding something on to a broken bolt or nut

May try to get it out that way if i cant get it with a socket.

 

[BadassBlaze]

I just tighten it up till its damn near impossible to get them to lock shut.

 

[DeviousK5]

Ive ran into that situation a half dozen times or so . Ive had great luck using a chisel and punching an X into the head of the bolt, then using a drift and mushroom the head slightly, a propane torch to heat up the loctite thats probably there and a 6 pont socket. If it was still unanswered it is standard rotatation thread

 

[BadassBlaze]

Should be standard rotation... or it was on my 14bsf...

 

[4X4HIGH]

http://www.fabbriassociates.com/index.html

never used it but heard good things.


oh ya and some are now metric. and always use 6 point stuff. no 12 point on these.

some/most have locktight on them also. if you got heat heat up the area to soffen the locktight.

I was just about to give a link to that tool my friend invented.

 

[sweetk30]

I was just about to give a link to that tool my friend invented.

thats why i save those links in my favorets in the folder marked truck repair stuff.

 

[Dudge]

x2 on the visegrips. If they won't break it lose, try a hammer/chisel to turn it and break it lose. There's more than 1 way to skin a cat.

 

[lak2004]

I was just about to give a link to that tool my friend invented.

I actually saw that you linked that in an older thread, but that wont really work for me I dont think. Maybe if nothing else works ill go that route,