HanSolo
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- Sep 11, 2012
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Man, that sounds like a real nightmare! It's a really tight spot where those mounting bolts are. I tried various lenght 1/4" drive 15/32 sockets to extract. I eventually discovered a small box end wrench got the best bit. But it had to have thin walls. One of those times when a cheap-o tool serves you better than higher quality tool.I drilled through yes, easy outs were softer than the metal I was working with and they just kept stripping. I beat the back of the cog ( cleaning old welds off ) and it jarred loose the old bolt ( what was left of it ), thats the first pic I put up there. I'm picking loose the bolt out of the origional threads. I matched up my threads on the bolts to a tap, it was a 5/16 24 teeth per inch. so it fit exact. So when I tapped it the final time it was really just cleaning out all the metal shavings from the existing threads.