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Old 06-12-2005, 07:14 AM
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I have never had any luck with ' Easy Outs'..... the hole you drill will have straight sides.... both styles of ' easy outs' which I know of have tapered working surfaces.... one style four sides with supposed cutter edges...the other left hand spiral threads...
These tapered styles only catch on the top as much as they are forced into the hole....
Also, the force necessary to wedge them into the hole in the bolt actually spreads the top into the area you are not wanting any more friction applied to.

MUCH BETTER on hard bolts is to drill and tap for a LEFT HAND BOLT to be inserted.... this actually gives you legit friction area evenly spread out on the inside of the bolt. More work to do correctly... but not if you count the trouble it is to get a broken ' easy out' out of the bolt.

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Old 06-12-2005, 07:38 AM
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easy trouble

i concur with the above post about easy outs. i have never been successful with one. they always break off then you have a worse prob. i have had good luck drilling smaller than the bolt the tapping with the same size bolt. i am not aware that left threads are commonly available for all bolts.... where are you getting them leathermag?

in the future anybody taking the thing apart would have to know about that left hand thread too or it willbe broken again.
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Old 06-12-2005, 08:04 AM
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If you can still tighten the bolt, you will be able to get it out easily. If you can get a dremel tool to that head, cut a slot and then use a screwdriver with a square blade and a wrench on the blade to remove the bolt. Drilling into that bolt to insert an ezy out or a tap is risky, too easy to slide over into the aluminum housing and then you are fried for sure.
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Sorry I did not describe that clearly enough...

The Left hand thread bolt is just the direct replacement for the ' easy outs'... when you get the original obstinate bolt out you will just replace it with its normal (right hand thread) replacement (just as if it had come out fine in the first place but you were putting new ones in ' on principle' as MB puts it)... hopefully having learned to put antisieze compound on the threads before tightening up...

In other words...no left hand items will be left in the situation to foul up someone in the future...

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