iguanahotsauce
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- Dec 13, 2010
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Vancouver,
Washington
I have a 92 Talon TSi in my garage that I have been working on for quite a while now. It started as a free project car and needed a whole bunch of various work to get it up and running again. Eventually had it it running great for a few months, then it started having issues again. After doing quite a few different tests and checking various things it was determined that there was a bad head gasket that needed to be replaced. I proceeded to order a gasket replacement kit and tore down the engine so I could get the head off. It turned out that the issue was coming from 3 or the 4 bolts connecting the exhaust manifold to the turbo manifold were broken causing a massive air leak. Everything was fine and dandy, it was kind of a bummer that the head gasket was fine but at least I was able to go through and clean the engine and replace all the gaskets and various parts that I found out were in bad shape.
Flash forward to now. After a few months of not working on my car because I have been pretty busy with work I finally have some time to start working again. I purchased some tools to remove the broken bolts and attempted to remove the three broken bolts in the turbo manifold (there is also a broken bolt in the head where the intake manifold mounts to the head that I have not attempted to remove yet) So I drill a hole through the middle of the broken bolt and then tap in the extractor like the instructions tell me to. I then proceed to attempt to remove the bolt but it is not budging. So I hit it with some penetrating oil and let it sit overnight and I come back the next day and it still wont budge. After a while of trying to turn the extractor to remove it the thing snaps off and now I am left with a piece of a broken bolt extractor in the broken bolt I was trying to remove.
So I searched for quite a while and from what I read it said to get a torch and a cobalt drill bit and you should be able to remove it that way. I proceeded to heat up the bolt until it was very hot, let it cool down, and then tried to drill out the broken bolt extractor with the cobalt bit. The cobalt drill bit didn't even make a dent in the extractor so I decided I would figure out that one later and try working on removing one of the other stuck bolts. This time I heated the stuck bolt until it was very hot, let it cool, then drilled out the center of it. The first issue was that the cobalt drill bit did not drill through the bolt very easily, my cheap drill bit from harbor freight drilled through the other stuck bolt much easier. I eventually drilled out a hole in the bolt and was able to insert the new "stronger" extractor bit I purchased. This bolt I was working on was stuck just as bad as the other one and then after a while of truing to turn the extractor this one snapped off as well and I am now left with two broken bolts with broken extractor bits in the middle of them, one more broken bolt that I haven't touched in the turbo manifold, and one broken bolt in the head where the intake manifold connects to the head.
Any advice on what to do would be greatly appreciated. I am stuck here and have what to do now.
Flash forward to now. After a few months of not working on my car because I have been pretty busy with work I finally have some time to start working again. I purchased some tools to remove the broken bolts and attempted to remove the three broken bolts in the turbo manifold (there is also a broken bolt in the head where the intake manifold mounts to the head that I have not attempted to remove yet) So I drill a hole through the middle of the broken bolt and then tap in the extractor like the instructions tell me to. I then proceed to attempt to remove the bolt but it is not budging. So I hit it with some penetrating oil and let it sit overnight and I come back the next day and it still wont budge. After a while of trying to turn the extractor to remove it the thing snaps off and now I am left with a piece of a broken bolt extractor in the broken bolt I was trying to remove.
So I searched for quite a while and from what I read it said to get a torch and a cobalt drill bit and you should be able to remove it that way. I proceeded to heat up the bolt until it was very hot, let it cool down, and then tried to drill out the broken bolt extractor with the cobalt bit. The cobalt drill bit didn't even make a dent in the extractor so I decided I would figure out that one later and try working on removing one of the other stuck bolts. This time I heated the stuck bolt until it was very hot, let it cool, then drilled out the center of it. The first issue was that the cobalt drill bit did not drill through the bolt very easily, my cheap drill bit from harbor freight drilled through the other stuck bolt much easier. I eventually drilled out a hole in the bolt and was able to insert the new "stronger" extractor bit I purchased. This bolt I was working on was stuck just as bad as the other one and then after a while of truing to turn the extractor this one snapped off as well and I am now left with two broken bolts with broken extractor bits in the middle of them, one more broken bolt that I haven't touched in the turbo manifold, and one broken bolt in the head where the intake manifold connects to the head.
Any advice on what to do would be greatly appreciated. I am stuck here and have what to do now.