How the hell do you remove breakaway bolts/screws!

[SKYLINE]

How the hell do you remove breakaway bolts/screws!?

Drill won't fit!!!!

Any advice?

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[SKYLINE]

Theseeee

 

[greasy]

Maybe a mini-cutoff tool like a Dremel if the bolts are exposed between the flanges on the sides of the pipe.

 

[blck10th]

Maybe a mini-cutoff tool like a Dremel if the bolts are exposed between the flanges on the sides of the pipe.

Like this cut a cross in the head and it will break.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Or a dremel

 

[blck10th]

Or a dremel

I hate easy outs. If they break which many times they do your fucked unless you have carbide to drill it out. I have them at work and I never use them. It's especially bad on the smaller ones.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Easy outs suck dick. I'd say drill it out with a 90* drill if you can't get at it any other way. Is that a steering column? Wtf am I looking at?

Welding a nut on broken off bolts works well too (though probably not here). It heats up the metal nicely and allows you to get a wrench on it

 

[SKYLINE]

Dremel didn't work because the screw is kinda deep and the dremel cut wheel or what ever didn't go far enough to cut it.

The screw is not expose from the sides or bottom :/ and I have limited space.

 

[SKYLINE]

Easy outs suck dick. I'd say drill it out with a 90* drill if you can't get at it any other way. Is that a steering column? Wtf am I looking at?

Welding a nut on broken off bolts works well too (though probably not here). It heats up the metal nicely and allows you to get a wrench on it

steering column yes, it's the ignition cylinder that I need to remove.

 

[RICH17]

Drill the heads out and take a pair of vise grips to the remainder of the threads

 

[rz79]

Air chisel???

 

[Ti28]

The easy outs won't break on that. They probably on at 40 foot pounds, and inside a car. I'd done a few times on older Ferds at work with no issue.

 

[bikrboy128]

Air chisel???

bingo! break them loose with an air hammer, then walk it out with a screw driver

 

[blck10th]

Dremel didn't work because the screw is kinda deep and the dremel cut wheel or what ever didn't go far enough to cut it.

The screw is not expose from the sides or bottom :/ and I have limited space.

yeah I see that now that I am on my lap top.

is that coupler have any of the bolt exposed around the outer portion of the shaft(90* to the bolt) can you see the bolt there and cut? if so I'd try a cutoff wheel there. cut one off and the clamp will be separated then take the other bolt off

I am also not sure what it is I am looking at

 

[Wrencher]

They recessed those inside the bracket on purpose.
They where meant to be serviced as a whole, replacing the housing & bracket @ time of repair.
If you need to salvage that bracket, gain access thru what ever means to drill.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

So, the heads are designed to be tamper resistant? Wow, that's going to be a fucking bitch. If you have one a 90 degree air die grinder with some kind of pointed carbide is my best advice. Good fucking luck though, quite frankly I had to get a lock cylinder out in my van and the disk in the key slot that reinforced it was among the toughest fucking steel I have ever seen, it took a few drill bits out and the carbide worked on it but it was definitely trying. If you can get the whole assembly go for it is my vote. Is there a way to leave it on and get done what you need to possibly?

ED:

My vote is go to a JY, cut the fuck out of the other side than the saddle then go back to yours and cut the saddle. The other option is to make a new saddle piece up, but the caveat of that is if you find out that the piece has locating pins in it you're going to have to figure that out too and possibly with some precision. It looks to be pot metal so it probably isn't really weldable.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

the heads are not tamper resisstant....

....the heads are no longer there...they shear off once proper tq is reached, and voila, anti-theft bolts

ive gotten these to come out with a LH drillbit and iirc it was some oddball thread like 5mm...i do remember having to order bolts that would work as we couldnt find em anywhere

 

[SKYLINE]

Fuck the shit I'm really frustrated right now, I tried using a shizzle and hammer to try and make a slash on it, so I can put a screw driver, but for some reason I can't get it deep enough or wide enough.

I'm just going to order a push start button from eBay so I won't have to use the key/ignition cylinder to start the engine.

Time to watch some youtube videos, so I can have an idea on how to wire it.