Hi All,

Was tightening my shock bracket bolts this weekend after originally putting them on last weekend and one of the heads of a bolt snapped off. These are new high tensile bolts (7/16ths) and Im after some tips on how to get it out.

I have a set of 'easy out' bolt removal bits but the bolt blunted my standard drill bit so getting one of those in doesnt seem likely at this stage. I dont have a welder so cant use any method involving that.

Any recommendations?

So far, Im thinking of getting a new cobalt drill bit and going nice and slow and seeing if i can drill through it and maybe hammer an allen key in and get it out that way. If that doesnt work Ill have to take it somewhere

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just when i thought to myself i hadn't seen a BFH mentioned in a while...

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic ... lt+removal

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good luck

you're talking about the 1/4" bolts holding the top bracket to the body, right? they have a 7/16 AF head, but the bolt is 1/4"

is it at the top or the bottom? if it's at the top, then you should be able to get to it from the engine bay side. You might be able to tap it with a small screwdriver or centrepunch and unscrew it outwards.

Yep those ones. Unfortunately its a bottom bolt though.

From reading those post listed above looks like i need to drill it out with a few different cobalt drill bits.