OMG things are not going my way lately, problem after problem. How in the world can I fix this????

The reason it broke was because the bolt I guess was in kind of crooked and wouldnt budge. I had to take it off the car and try......then *snap*

BTW are my turbine fins supposed to have white powderish coat on it?







[Modified by intekragsr, 10:12 PM 2/27/2003]

 

I believe they make some type of tool to pull it out.....but im not sure. Damn that sucks sorry.

 

just use a drill and first drill a lil hole in it and then reverse it pushing hard against the broken bolt. should come out.

 

You can buy a tool to remove it or just take it to any respectable auto shop and they'll have the tools to take it out for you. Looks like there is still a little thread sticking out of the hole, grab a dremel tool and make a straight groove in the top of the bolt and try to take it out with a flat head screwdriver.

 

well it broke because a socket couldnt take it out, and snapped it. I really doubt my hand strength with a screwdriver

Thanks for the replies guys...

 

Ez-Out

 

what is ez out? some sort of tool? super liquid? where can i find such a thing?


[Modified by intekragsr, 10:29 PM 2/27/2003]

 

Dang, I snapped off a bolt int he exact hole on my T3 turbine. I drilled a pilot hole and used an extractor to back it out. The first extractor I used was too small and i ended up snapping that off too. Then I stepped up to the next larger one, and i ended up buckling my small tap handle, so I switched to my T-handle tap handle and it eventually came out. Since I didn't ever want to deal with that again, I put studs in my turbine. I used the intake manifold studs that got swapped out for longer ones for my Hondata IM gasket install. They work perfectly.

 

good idea inspyral, so the intake manifold studs fit perfectly in a t3 turbine? Whats the size on that?


[Modified by intekragsr, 10:30 PM 2/27/2003]

 

The thread on the manifold side of the studs is 8x1.25 I believe, the exact same thread as the T3 turbine outlet. Then you just use exhaust manifold nuts to go with the studs. I'm not sure if there's a difference between intake and exhaust manifold studs/nuts, but they do interchange.

 

Thank you

 

I know white on plugs means a lil lean...is it the same with turbo fins?

 

the white powder stuff on the turbine is due to the heat. the turbine glows hottt red and after cool it leaves white powder.

 

Adapt... Improvise... Overcome

 

When that happened to me, I took it to a machine shop and they just quickly welded a nut to the end of it and just unscrewed it right out. No charge.

 

Hehe motivation for the day.

 

go to sears....craftsman extractor kit.

 

Take it too a machine shop before you break an extractor in there. Then your really going to pay.

 

it's much like a drill bit, but reverse threaded and conical. you drill into a broken bolt and insert a properly sized ez-oout into the hole. as you turn it to remove the bolt, the ez-out's reverse thread design tightens it's grip in the hole you drilled.


looks like you galled the bolt. an ez-out may not work. if it doesnt, get out the drill and use a bit that's slightly smaller than the hole's diameter and drill it out. then grap that handy dandy tap and die set and use a tap to chase the threads, removing the remnants of the bolt and recovering the original threads.

 

reverse drill bit will probably work. when i installed my header, the bolt on the head broke off just like that. I took it to a shop and they charged me $70 to take it out.

 

HEAT!!!!!!!!! You will have to heat the turbine housing with a torch once you figure out how you are going to turn the bolt, or what's left of it. Heating around the housing will cause the housing to expand slightly around the bolt and the bolt will be easier to turn.


[Modified by racerxadam, 10:10 PM 2/27/2003]

 

ahhh i can finally make good use of my butane torch