Re: Broken bolt in my head

[David LeDeaux <dask@lcc.net>]

About things like that, (sheared bolts, I mean) I was help a friend work on
his VW truck.  We found a bolt that had been sheared.  He used a reverse
thread drill bit to back it out.  It caught just enough to work it back
out... just thought that was the neatest thing.

At 11:38 PM 3/15/99 -0500, Brett Van Sprewenburg wrote:
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>
>So I've got this really nasty pain above my right eye, I think it's
>from the bolt I broke off flush with my forehead the other day...oh,
>wait, that's for another mailing list...
>
>
>For those of you that remember/read about the _other_ bolt that
>I sheared off flush with the intake side of my 16v cylinder head,
>I talked with Alistair (the person porting my head at Interprep
>Performance in Jamestown) and we both had a really good laugh over
>how I managed to screw up so bad.  :)   He basically said that
>he could fix me up no problem, and that he'd TIG weld a small
>rod to what was left of the bolt, then turn it out with vice-
>grips.  Wish I'd thought of that, duh. :/  So it goes out UPS
>tommorow!!
>
>==Brett
>
> \/  '84 Scirocco (ITB racer 2B) | "Hot VW's, take two home. They're small"
>\/\/ '88 Scirocco 16v (Show), '85 Scirocco (Winter) | - brett@netacc.net
>
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	-David LeDeaux
'80 Scirocco
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Track/9444/
(Yes, I broke down and got one)



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