drilling with a regular drill bit sucks nuts. does anyone have any recommendations what kind of drill bit to use? the screw is already "polished" to a nub, but the head is still on there a little bit...

i'm aware many a jokes may surface as i've used the words head, polished, nub, screw, sucks, nuts and drill all in the same short paragraph.

but i do want to figure out what might work best

 

a normal drill bit worked for me.

 

I think I went through a couple bits while drilling away at it.

Did you l00b the polished nub?

 

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same for me. works every time.

 

Craftsman offers cobalt steel bits that should work well.

 

Do yourself a favor and don't use screws on the rotor. They are only on so the rotor doesn't fall off the hub during the assembly line. I've used Dewalt bits, titainium finish, they seemed to do the trick. Drill a small hole through the head of the srew and hit the rotor with a rubber mallet.

 

impact driver stripped the screw head?

 

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mine did on my civic

but just use a hardened bit for metal, it should be more than enough for that tiny screw....

 

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Did you l00b the polished nub?</TD></TR></TABLE>

leave it to Chris F to bastardize the thread

Thanks all for the comments. I guess i'll go back at it with another bit.

 

Back in my machine building days, I always used reverse drill bits to get out broken screws. You use them by driving your drill motor counter clockwise, this also aids in the screw backing out as you are drilling. I paid about 50 bucks for the set of bits. I've never broken one yet, but then again I have a lot of experience drilling. The key is to ***** punch the screw before drilling, then use a very small bit to drill a pilot hole, use cutting oil, and then move up to a bigger bit. Good luck with it.

 

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Is that a suburb of Bangkok?

 

I bought a set of bits from Craftsman. They worked on mine. FWIW I wouldn't use an impact drill on it. May damage the dizzy.

If you are willing to come down here I'll let you borrow my set.

 

don't mind Opie, he just woke up

 

I usually use a punch to notch the outside edge of the screw, then spin it with a flat head and hammer. If its fubar'd, I'd go with just a regular bit.

 

The best way I have discovered is to dremel a slot for a flat head and use the flat head bit on the impract driver to get it out. I usually keep it that way too because I find the flat head bit less prone to stripping

 

removing a stripped BRAKE DISK rotor screw or

removing a stripped DISTRIBUTOR rotor screw

I think there is somewhat of a confusion on what we are discussing here based on some of the feedback provided.

 

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removing a stripped DISTRIBUTOR rotor screw

I think there is somewhat of a confusion on what we are discussing here based on some of the feedback provided.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think everyone except Opie is talking about brake rotor screws.

 

air chisel ftw!!11 (seriously)

 

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I think everyone except Opie is talking about brake rotor screws.</TD></TR></TABLE>

ya, just making sure

 

Take the distributor out.Place it care fully in a vise.Do whatever you need to to destroy the rotor until you have only the metal base of the rotor left.Now remove the coil and signal sensor's black cover. You should now have a lot of room to work with.If needed remove the ignitor and coil. Using a good set of vise grips remove the screw. Installation is the reversal of removal. Just make sure you know how the flats on the distributor line up with the cam.

Joe.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by carchitect &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Take the distributor out.Place it care fully in a vise.Do whatever you need to to destroy the rotor until you have only the metal base of the rotor left.Now remove the coil and signal sensor's black cover. You should now have a lot of room to work with.If needed remove the ignitor and coil. Using a good set of vise grips remove the screw. Installation is the reversal of removal. Just make sure you know how the flats on the distributor line up with the cam.

Joe.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Hahaha

Wrong rotor screw (brake rotor)

-Chris

 

lol

 

Cripes, not even sure why you'd attempt to remove a rotor screw with a normal screwdriver by hand...

Impact screwdriver

 

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How the hell am I supposed to know that? The only screw I had a problem with is the distributor rotor screw.

 

we don't want to hear about your screwing problems