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Originally Posted by thayer
I rounded out my bolt with my impact hammer. I ended up using an easyout. Huge pita. Yes there is blue loctite on the bolt. Once you get it off once, you are good to go forever.
Has anyone ever looked at the steering lock? maybe it is strong enough. That would certainly make the job simpler tool wise. Then you could probably do it alone.
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Yeah this five minute job took my entire Saturday and hopefully I can get it done tomorrow. The nut rounded out very quickly for me with a 30 inch breaker bar. The EZ Out is not working because I can't get a good grip on the head of the EZ Out because of the shield surrounding the nut. I've drilled out so much meat of the bolt I'm afraid of cutting into the threads. Now I have a dremel cutting wheel attached to my cordless drill and tomorrow I'm praying I can chop and drill the nut enough to get it out without ruining anything else. I've already applied enough heat to the nut so that the adjacent plastic components are melting. It looks to me like there is epoxy holding the nut in place rather than loctite.