advice needed

[m4rkj]

my clio has been off the road for a while and i went to take the wheel of the other day and 3 of the wheel bolts snapped in the hub i was wonderin if there was anyway of getting them out without buyin a new hub and bearing kit cheers

[MAXIBOY]

drill them out

[m4rkj]

wont it damage the thread on the hub :oops:

[Matt_16v]

you could shatter them out? or maybe weld some plate to them and get them ot that way?

[m4rkj]

how do you shatter them out as it it stuck in the ex's feild and i need to move it asap as i dont trust her if she does anything to the car

[donsrno1]

did they all snap totally flush to the face of the hub?

[northy]

if its the front hub - take it off and to a local engineering shop who should be able to extract them for you....The rears are part of the brake disk.

[schakal]

or soak them in plus gas and use adecent
bolt extractor kit which will unscrew them out .

[northy]

ive yet to find a decent stud / bolt extractor....all the ones ive tried have made them worse.

[Rich]

if you can drill straight you dont have a problem :wink: on my first clio we didnt have the lock nut so my old man drilled them out with a cordless drill by hand, no jigs or owt, straight as an arrow and didnt damage any threads :D

[wavy]

while lee was doing my brakes a bolt snapped
he just gripped the bolt from the rear of the disk and wound it out
dunno if this was a lucky fluke but when i snapped it i thought OH SHIT
less than 2 mins it was out
cheers lee :)

[Allan]

i have drilled out more of these bolts then i can count :S

easy enough to drill them out although if they are seazed pillar drills work a treat :D

[big hp]

while lee was doing my brakes a bolt snapped
he just gripped the bolt from the rear of the disk and wound it out
dunno if this was a lucky fluke but when i snapped it i thought OH s**t
less than 2 mins it was out
cheers lee :)

near enough what i did but wound it out back of hub.

If its flush then using a pin punch / centre punch knock bolt round until you can get some mole grips or equivelent on stud and wind out.

[schakal]

ive yet to find a decent stud / bolt extractor....all the ones ive tried have made them worse.


ayee,most are crap but again running the drill
on a fast setting doesnot help either .

also drilling them a little before using the
extractor gives it a better grip .