Article: Broken bolt extraction, the Team Heat & Beat way!

[Billy Golightly]

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[durza11]

nice!!!! i'm always looking for things like this!!! tahnk you for helping me fix my trike!

[portland250r]

i remember someone teaching me that same trick.

[iharthoorn]

Thanks so much, this is about to save my sorry butt in about 3 places

[oldsguru]

Would like to add that for additional strength, fill the inside of the nut with weld. This not only adds additional strength to the weld but also heat to help break the frozen threads. Applying wax from a candle also helps to break free the frozen bolt. Worked in a machine shop for years and this worked a good 75% of the time on oil galley plugs and broken manifold bolts. Also don't be discouraged if you fail the first time, sometimes it takes multiple nuts to break free a broken fastener.

[kebby28]

Nice! I have done this a couple times on exhaust manifold broken bolts. Only I didn't use a washer (back then I thought I invented this trick :) ) Also I only had an arc welder so I had to be very precise welding only the inside of the nut. Definitely wouldn't work on a smaller bolt like the 6 and 8 mm. But I like the washer idea! Thanks