John_Mc
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It pays to wait until you have the right tool for the job rather than forge ahead in a chaotic fashion. Case in point:
I wanted to remove the old bump stop from my trailing arm (the rubber just fell right off) but on the remaining disk there is no flat surface to engage. My big "vice-grips" were hardly big enough and since they are "hecho en China" they were junk and couldn't grip enough to loosen the rusted bolt. So in a fit of stupidity, I decided to drill it out, or at least drill it to weaken it's grip (there is very little logic to that reasoning, I know). Well before I ever achieved success or failure with that attempt, I came to my senses and decided a large pipe wrench might do the job (i had to go to my office to get it, which is why I didn't use it initially). I used it on the non-drilled TA bump stop first and voila! it worked. So I then used it on the drilled bump stop and "snap"! So, I tried to drill out the broken bolt and got to the point where I worried I was affecting the threads on one side and still had too much rusted bolt stuck to keep proceeding. SOOOOOO, to make a long story less long, would a tap work to "scoop out" the remaining bolt or should I just drill the rest of it out, threads and all, and put in a helicoil?
I know this is kind of a lame inquiry, but I'm not too familiar with all the machining possibilities available to our hobby so I have to ask some silly questions sometimes. Sorry for the long winded story.
I wanted to remove the old bump stop from my trailing arm (the rubber just fell right off) but on the remaining disk there is no flat surface to engage. My big "vice-grips" were hardly big enough and since they are "hecho en China" they were junk and couldn't grip enough to loosen the rusted bolt. So in a fit of stupidity, I decided to drill it out, or at least drill it to weaken it's grip (there is very little logic to that reasoning, I know). Well before I ever achieved success or failure with that attempt, I came to my senses and decided a large pipe wrench might do the job (i had to go to my office to get it, which is why I didn't use it initially). I used it on the non-drilled TA bump stop first and voila! it worked. So I then used it on the drilled bump stop and "snap"! So, I tried to drill out the broken bolt and got to the point where I worried I was affecting the threads on one side and still had too much rusted bolt stuck to keep proceeding. SOOOOOO, to make a long story less long, would a tap work to "scoop out" the remaining bolt or should I just drill the rest of it out, threads and all, and put in a helicoil?
I know this is kind of a lame inquiry, but I'm not too familiar with all the machining possibilities available to our hobby so I have to ask some silly questions sometimes. Sorry for the long winded story.