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Old 02-06-2007, 01:17 AM
mpolli mpolli is offline
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Well I am not familiar with that car, but it sounds like a likely application for a screw extractor. That is assuming you can not get vice grips on the head of course. As far as screw extractors, I was just at Sears and they had some nifty ones that were sort of like a driver bit, with a drill on one end and the extractor part on the other end. I think they were calling them deck out because they said they could do deck screws. It was a small package with a couple of different sizes. They had a TV showing a demo of it.

Now, I am surprised you stripped a Torx screw. They are specially made not to do that. Were you using an allen wrench (or worse) in it? I confused.

Good luck.

Mike
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