Thread: Need Help Snapped off bolt

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I seem to do this a lot and a friend of mine showed me a trick but I don't know if you have any part of the bolt sticking out. He just put a nut over what was left of the bolt and welded it on, while it was still hot he just unscrewed it using the new nut.

Sean

Unfortunately the bolt snapped off pretty flush and it snapped off on while reinstalling water pump then ezout snapped due to being impatient on my part.

I've picked up some 1/8 " carbide burrs as per a suggestion by another member and give it a try, see if I can't hog out enough room to wiggle ezout.

As I was leaving my local auto parts store the manager said wait a minute and he pulled down a small dusty rack off a top shelf and said he knows some guys who have had pretty good luck with a product from Helicoil and it's an ezout extractor it has like a tiny broach style cutter on one end and a stubby little like 1/4" extractor on the other end. Basically you drill in left handed and then thread in other end and back out ezout...... Well that's what it claims I'm going to try that next.