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Can you break off an exhaust bolt that’s actually in a car where you don’t have the broken stud in a vice and all the room in the world to get it out? You know real life situation.

@keyonb8053

8 ай бұрын

Right what do you do in this situation?

@DaveMcLaughlin

8 ай бұрын

Got that on my Commodore and its L76 from prevous owner. Passenger side rear bolt on the exhaust header broken off below the surface. No access and heat is a bad idea with the fuel rails in that area. Heads off is the only way this bugger is coming out. 😢

@kellyappel3015

8 ай бұрын

For me, I'd wind up removing the manifold. The older vehicles from. the 80's were a guarantee you'd be replacing exhaust studs.

@user-lp1sk1sw5i

2 ай бұрын

My situation is kinda the same a bolt that wouldn't be so easy in real world application, yet I understand his educational purpose here

My best luck at seized bolts has been, soak with penetrating oil, let sit, spray again, wipe away excess drips, heat with torch. Penetrating oil will light, that’s fine, be careful of surrounding items. Once good and hot hit it with CRC Freeze-Off, many times you will hear a audible pop as the bolt loosens, immediately use wrench/extractor to remove, this has worked on severely rusted bolts on high mileage cars from the rust-belt Northeast US.

@mrdallas9729

5 ай бұрын

To confirm heat with a torch, then hit it with the crc freeze right after?! I'm about to give this a try!

As someone who works on stuff about everyday and broke more bolts than I can remember. I can’t remember an extractor tool ever working for me. Least not as described. 99% of the time I go right to the welding. Usually the heat alone loosens it. But I use a mig for that so I can get down in there and step it up in nut size if needed.

Great ideas! BUT ! 50 + years as a mechanic on industrial equipment has its unique problems ? 1/3 of the time we had to drill out the bolt and collapse the threads or drill and tap the thread hole again ! Some bolts were broken off for years and became one with the metal! There is always a way for a repair, it’s just about the time , money and knowledge of doing it . Thanks for the video!

Keep the videos coming. They are super handy and really well shot/edited. This ones timely as I'm about to try to replace a BMW exhaust manifold with some broken studs.

How come when you started welding the nut, the thread magically appeared?

@keithm5224

2 ай бұрын

Good catch

The best method by far is method number 7...EXPLOSIVES!!💣💥

First! You showed us a broken stud that was broken off even with the surface. Then, when you welded your choice of a gripper to it you showed a stud that was sticking out. What's up with that!? "cheers!"

Great video thanks!

Very helpful thank you

I wasn't sure if I would follow until you killed it with fire. Excellent work

Great vid mate!

Great video. I agree with you at 1:24 that HATE will get the job done.

I saw the video sometime back when. Then this week it happened, the $300 pool pump I was working on sheared clean off flat to the surface. I hacked on it with the usual combination of anti-sieze, and trying to turn it with a chisel, no luck. I drilled the middle, slipping once and drilling the pump instead. After making the center hole, I used an extractor. The tip of it is still in the bolt, since it, too, sheared off nicely. I remembered I'd seen a video on this, so looked it up. The first try was to weld a nut with a circular flat. It too, sheared, but I figured that weld was not too good. The biggest problem was getting electrical contact with the motor, which took lots of wire brushing before it worked. For the second try, I used the washer method. I like that a lot better, since it allows you to get a good weld to the bolt first. Then I welded the nut on. Lots of slowly applied torque and off it came. Thanks!

I like the method, but the stud you removed was not the one you broke below the surface.

@garyyorke1080

9 ай бұрын

Bit strange flush break and the stud has reappeared when it came to welding it to the nut .. I guess camera trickery

@vido4x4

Ай бұрын

Video not helpful at all. You started off with a stud broken beneath the surface and then suddenly you switch to a much easier problem-a protruding stud.

What if changing the valve (aka camshaft) cover and the bolt right next to the timing chain breaks off. You can't weld the valve cover bolts stuck down in there can you? Thanks

If you have a bolt stuck up like the one he showed, chuck up your drill and put heat in it bolt. Reverse it straight out. If have to drill the bolt, drive a torque bit into the hole and then use it in a drill or wrench to back it out after heat. You can drill it and use a soldering iron to heat it if it is in magnesium. I specifically use these methods for my work. I’m a pneumatic tool technician and the official broke fastener extraction engineer. The tools that I work on are aluminum or magnesium bodies with socket head bolts. Some of the tools are $500 for an empty body.

Works every time, 60% of the time.

Nice 👍🏻 !

What do you think about applying anti-sieze lubricants on new bolts? Worth the effort? Is it mainly heat-cycled and rusty bolts that we should be suspect on?

@BroomysGarage

4 жыл бұрын

Anti seize is great, however you have to be aware of what effect it will have on torque factor when tensioning a fastener. As it is a lubricant, the torque required will be reduced, so if you were to tighten a fastener to 120Nm as an example dry, you may only require 100Nm when anti seize is applied. There are exact multiplication factors for this, so refer to these before tightening bolts, as it could lead to stretched fastener otherwise.

Thanks for the Tig welding method. I saw another way of putting a short bit of copper tube in the hole first before adding weld to the bolt. keep adding filler to bring it up to the surface. then do your washer method. Do you like that idea?

@BroomysGarage

7 ай бұрын

Copper, aluminum any non ferrous metal will work for that 👍🏻

@mrdallas9729

5 ай бұрын

I seen that also! Sounds like a win.

7th method. Get someone else to do it lol Loving the videos mate.

Woah, wtf happened between 6.08 and 6.09 ?! I take it another bolt body or threaded rod was cut and inserted into nut then conductive heat welded it together? Or was entire piece rendered molten? I'm not a welder obvs. Was the washer tacked on first?

These are great videos Broomy! Plenty of good know how on 'we've all been there' shed moments i.e. Breaking a bolt, 5 beers in on a Saturday night, before a planned cruise on Sunday morning. I'd love to have the gear to give the welding method a crack - but will stick with my run of the mill Bunnings kits (for the not so serious stuff) and your final method for now. Cheers!

How much is a stick welder like that?

Fire is my first go to

@BroomysGarage

4 жыл бұрын

I do like fire 🔥

What about a 1mm copper wire sheared off inside an M1 die? Nothing protruding either end. No lathe or drill press.

I've got a bolt broken off in the aluminum head of one of my cars. I've tried welding to it, and not it has broken off so many times it's below the surface with a hardened drill bit broken off in the hole I drilled in it when I was going to try a bolt extractor. So, I'm pretty much to step 6 now. lol

@BroomysGarage

8 ай бұрын

You might need to use a carbide tipped masonry bit if you have an ezeout or stud extractor stuck in it to drill it out. They are the only drill bits that will drill that type of hardened steel

are truck updates gonna be on fullboost or here from now on?

@BroomysGarage

4 жыл бұрын

All the project car stuff is still on fullboost. Still making plenty of other content on there as well. This channel is for all my other stuff 👍🏻

Exactly what I would have said!

First thing I try is to heat up (if it’s allowed) and then quickly cooling it off. Then I dill a hole all the way through the bolt if possible to release pressure. Then depends on the size of the bolt welding, drilling bigger hole and breaking threads inside, going for helicoil. Really there is no right answer, depends on place you have, your stress level etc. I know one thing when bolt goes off it can take 5 min. to take it out or several hours.

Your demo did not relate to the very tricky situation you presented us with (a bolt sheered off below the surface). Unless you show us your technique of welding that recessed stud to the washer and then to the nut, how can we amateurs copy what you are doing? All you showed us was you welding a nut to a thread that was magically well above the surface. I’m not sure what to make of it or how to do it.

Stand in easy one was used.

Easy outs never worked for me not once and if they break they are not soft metal so your not drilling through those....The fluted ones worked for me to get a broken spark plug out of a cylinder. The best method that actually works for me everytime is the weld the nut to the stud method.

I've just removed a bolt from an old cast iron motorcycle block, I did it with the welding method using a mig welder, I put on a washer with a neat fitting hole and a big outside diameter to protect the surface and it worked a treat, thanks for the advice.

You obviously haven't had to remove the 8 exhaust studs on a suzuki bandit . On an average 3 snap . I've tried the weld method and had partial success . Ive started with about 10 mm above the surface and ended up below the surface and a bucket full of welded washers and nuts . I'm not peeing on ya bonfire but some methods work most of the time but not all the time ..

It's much more challenging when you live somewhere they salt the roads in winter and the bolt/stud has been broken for a few winters, like an exhaust manifold stud

I got a bolt broken off down in the hole and the bolt is to hard to drill. I have tried everything with no luck.

Can you use a torch lol😆🤷🏾‍♂️??

And I keep telling my pendejo friend to do that, fucking dude don't listen man!!!! I bought the extension and bits but,thick head bro!!!! Yes it's a tight squeeze it's on a 2008 town and country Chrysler van smh this gets me mad cause he's one of them people that want your help yet you tell them and it's a no won't work work. Thanks man I'll show him this maybe he'll be convinced.

They make a welding rod called stud rods to do the job.

5:17 You are welcome.

He didn't actually show how to weld a washer and nut onto a stud broken inside the hole like he said he would, all he did was weld a nut onto a stud/ bolt sticking out from the hole 6:07. Anyone with a welder could do that.

Fire kill is step one. Step two is throw things at it while it burns. All other methods need not be entered into.

I'm trying to learn, but what I see in the welding example is a stud going through the nut.... That's not what your supposed to be showing me. Where's the example where the bolt is broken off

why didn't you scream at it after you got it out? things like, "thought so" or "why did you put me through this" or "you stupid little bit*h" or "i hate you" flipping it off is good too. plus if your neighbor see you in that mode, they'll give you space and go inside. but, if you want to keep it going you can ask, "what are you looking at"

I broke a head stud

What do you do with dielectric fused metals ??? I've been screwed over time and I don't know what you think about this 🤔🤔

With a little reality cussing there

😂😂😂

Really haha!

No silver bullet for broken bolts, they are all different

Everyone here failed to mention the two best methods to remove a broken, seized bolt. 1.Paraffin Wax. 2. Heat and Quench. you are welcome

I was once the envy of most women until I put on 100lbs. Then my girlfriend left me. I'm now a broken stud.

NOT

Try using a #2 pencil….and draw it out!

@philtowle4683

8 ай бұрын

That's constipation.

And don't forget the video was done on a wankel engine...😅😅😅😅oh, and lets not wish the stud is cross threaded...yikes....😊

Also I have broken off easyouts in the engine....hardened metals.... impossible to drill out....

@BroomysGarage

8 ай бұрын

Not impossible, just need the right drill bit. The masonry bits with carbide heads will drill hardened steel.

Alright, 2 things to have on hand you say? OK Lube and Plenty of Hate you say? That's a big "Can Do" here on this side a the globe Mate! I got plenty a candle wax for the lube part a your plan and bein I'm a 60 year old Boomer, I gotta gawdamn surplus a hate to keep me goin so (it keeps me warm) I shouldn't ever have a busted bolt ever again, a right?