well today i was attempting to take my flywheel off and get it balanced... well that didnt happen.
i managed to get all but 1 flywheel bolts loose... and it might have gone to the point of no return...
Its been completely rounded off, and i ended up buying an bolt extractor for a 1/2" so i could use my torque wrench... now its even more rounded off.
ive tried alot of stuff.. but this bolt is SCREWED UP. i have no idea what to do. can any one please help?
any suggestions? anything would be really appreciated!
-Joey

 

pics of the carnage....

 

i dont understand why this bolt was on sooooo tight.. every other bolt eventually came loose, this one WILL NOT budge

 

That sucks so much. What size socket were you using? That's a metric bolt.

Are you able to get vise grips on the or is there a lip or something that prevents that? Sometimes you can grind down 2 opposing sides so they are parralel so you can get a wrench or pair of vise grips or channel locks or something on there and try again.

 

i was using a 15mm socket..
its all chewed up because i was trying to use this socket extractor, that didnt necessarily work out the way i planed it to

 

Drill and internal extractor...

 

someone else mentioned this.. will any drill work? then what do you do, use the drill to back the bolt out? i dont know if i can get a drill that strong?

 

If it is a left handed drill bit, they sometimes will remove it as well as drill it.

 

And cordless will do. Just don't force it to much, or you'll **** it up more.

 

left handed drill bit... ill ask my roomate if hes god one those or something.. Will any battery powered drill be up to this task?

 

oopss^
great, this is awesome!

 

Also, take one of your other bolts. Measur across the threads, and make sure your drill bit is considerably smaller than that. Or you will have to helacoil... So for the spelling.

 

ill prob use the smallest drill bit and make my way up if im going to drill.. i might try the extractor again tommorow, just hammer the bastard on and try to get it to budge... this has been a huge pain in the **** by the way

 

Nothing on our cars are easy... You should know that by now.

 

You still might be able to take the next smallest size socket (in us) and bang it on with a hammer. The bolt is pretty shot...

 

I assume you don't have a welder, but if you did, you could weld another nut too it.

I really hate bolt extractors. the majority of the times I've used them with a really tight bolt, I've ended up breaking the bolt extractor off in the bolt. And you can't drill out the bolt extractor (harder than the drill bit)

 

thats no good... someone else mentioned using an air hammer????

 

The easiest way would be to weld a new nut on the end, next would be to hammer a smaller standard socket and try that, then use a feft hand drill bit and an extractor though I dont think there is anyway in hell it will pull that bolt out, should be at 65ft. lbs if I remember correctly.

If all else fails you could grind the head off and pull the flywheel off then try to pull whats left of the bolt out with an extractor.

 

man i wish i had some welding skills...

 

If this is the bolt head: (||)
grind two flat sides so its like this ||
then go at it with a wrench