Broken pinch bolt

JoeyG401 · Jul 3, 2012

WTF finally started installing my Type 1s and the passenger side pinch bolt head broke off. now the bolt itself is stuck in the damper fork before it even began to losen...

someone help pleaseeeeee

RedRyder · Jul 3, 2012

Drilling it out would take a awhile...

JoeyG401 · Jul 3, 2012

probably will put the back two in tomorrow and have my mechanic take care of the passenger side bullishh

AllGOnoSHOW · Jul 3, 2012

If you have a good drill and steel bit you should be able to drill it out. If you don't then just take the fork out, if you have any thread available try to thread one of the other bolts from the other three sides down into where the bolt is stuck and it will push the broken bolt out. If you can't do that then take it to a mechanic and have him weld a bolt with a head / or just an hex bolt top and racket that bish out.

Good luck, hate that this happened.

x5carl3tMurd3rx · Jul 4, 2012

AllGOnoSHOW said:
If you have a good drill and steel bit you should be able to drill it out. If you don't then just take the fork out, if you have any thread available try to thread one of the other bolts from the other three sides down into where the bolt is stuck and it will push the broken bolt out. If you can't do that then take it to a mechanic and have him weld a bolt with a head / or just an hex bolt top and racket that bish out.

Good luck, hate that this happened.

lolwut matt? threading a bolt in won't push the other one out....your best bet is to drill it out or just get a new one. I'm sure you can get one off car-part.com for pretty cheap.

AllGOnoSHOW · Jul 4, 2012

x5carl3tMurd3rx said:
lolwut matt? threading a bolt in won't push the other one out....your best bet is to drill it out or just get a new one. I'm sure you can get one off car-part.com for pretty cheap.

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