Sorry to hear that. Those bolts are hard enough to access under the best of conditions.

Sears sells broken bolt extractors that might work. They look like a socket; you drive then onto the head, then loosen.

Or you might be able to drive a torx bit into the hex. Or you could drill the head off the bolt.

They are called "Bolt Out".



http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?pid=00952162000&vertical=Sears&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes

But I wonder if there is enough room in the pulley for one of those to go into, if not the drill method will have to do.

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what is "autoclaved"? I thought that is what one does to surgical insturments to sterilize them.

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Thanks for the bolt out tool idea. Worked like a charm!

Got the balancer out and all the rubber on it has melted/disappeared and its in two pieces now.

I'm wondering if dealer is the only place to buy the bolt that I took out and the harmonic balancer? Would also need a water pump pulley.

My 101 is the one that's broken. I want to know if that is the harmonic balancer? What is 26 called?

#100 is the vibration dampener. #26 is the harmonic balancer

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