Crossover studs - clever strategies for a broken one?

[daveismissing]

Sigh, upper passenger side....

[$1987 GN$]

Sigh, upper passenger side....

Where was the torch?


AJ___

[daveismissing]

All was red hot at the time....

[Charlief1]

I'm a stud but I don't "cross over" Dave. sorry. :finga:

How much of the stud is left Dave? I've got a special set of extractors from Matco just for this kind of thing if there's at least .5" still hanging in it. Irvin (vise grip guys) make it as well and it works reallly well. Kinda pricey but effective non the less.

[daveismissing]

Snapped pretty much flush.
Drill it? Needs cobalt bits?
How good is the weld on the nut , any chance of just driving it off without destroying the flange?

[$1987 GN$]

Snapped pretty much flush.
Drill it? Needs cobalt bits?
How good is the weld on the nut , any chance of just driving it off without destroying the flange?

Well if it broke flush, drilling can be done slow and not fun.
Have done that usually a small bit to make sure it is centered then one that is less than the thread and then you can knock out the leftover threads; as I said slow but can be done. I have not broken the nut from the weld on the ones I have done.

AJ___

[Charlief1]

Snapped pretty much flush.
Drill it? Needs cobalt bits?
How good is the weld on the nut , any chance of just driving it off without destroying the flange?

I know you're in kanada Dave, but if you want to send it to Texas I can get it out for ya.  We can discuss a price after I get it out. :bigeyes;

[SuperSix]

This happened on the Eldorado recently. both studs on the forward manifold (FWD). I center-punched both - first one drilled out OK, 2nd one involved a handful of small bits (That ended up snapped) WD40, and a punch to finally get all of the old bolt out. I used the small bits to drill around the bolt. If ou are trying to save the original welded nut's threads - forget about it.  

I replaced with stainless bolts/washers/nuts from Home Depot - works great. Major PITA though.

[Steve Wood]

find some one that is good with a torch and burn them out

[daveismissing]

Was able to borrow a couple of cobalt 12 inch long bits.
Wasn't as bad as I feared, once the pilot hole was sunk.

Had a bad experience w the ford truck where a muffler chain did this
and I ended up paying for new manifolds plus exhaust.Left me gun shy.

Thanks for the advice. Gents.

 Forgive me Charlie if I don't disassemble the car so I can mail it to you for repair
  :yawinkle: (t'other board has this sawsall emoticon which would be appropriate here)

[Charlief1]

 Forgive me Charlie if I don't disassemble the car so I can mail it to you for repair