Alright not sure where this topic fits. So I bought a 95 gsr little over a year ago as a fixer upper/project car. I've been working on it here and there and have fixed almost everything I wanted to. I left the biggest problem for last. So the previous owner had snapped off not one, but two engine mount bolts in the block. They are specifically the drivers side upper mount bolts. So he managed to break off 2 of the 3 bolts into the block. And by my examination the only way to fix this is by drilling them out and re tapping. So far I've done all the repairs myself. But this one is over my head, which is why I probably left it for last. I am not going to attempt this. But I have no idea how to approach it. The only way I can see that they will be able to drill and tap this is with the engine out of the car. I am not removing the engine myself, I want to find a place that can take it out repair it and put it back in on site. But I don't know what type of shop to take it to. And how much would you estimate this job would run?

 

take it to a good machine shop. alot of the time they can get them out without drilling. dont mess with it cause if you ding it up to bad then they will have to drill. i learned that the hard way

 

take it to a shop..that would be the easiest.

i doubt it would cost more than like $50 or so. but i guess it probably depends where you take it.

 

when you say "it" you mean the car or the engine. Because that is my dilema. I don't have the time or the means to tear the engine out myself and then haul it to a shop.

 

If the bolt has snapped and it's still in there that it would be as easy as drilling and using a screw extractor. Provided that the machine shop can get a drill in there (possibly a right angle drill) the should be able to do while the motor is in the car. Take a few photos and bring to the machine shop and get their opinion. Even a competent technician would be able to handle this.

 

I am going to have to agree wth stumpyf4 on this one. This is not a hard task with the right equipment, i would look at verious extracting tools and try and tackle this yourseld if you are mechnically inclided like you seem. Is the engine in the car?

 

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Yes the engine is in the car. My biggest concern is space. I would def. do this myself if the block was out of the car but I don't have the means or the time to extract the engine myself and then haul it to a machine shop. I would love to do it myself and that is why I posted this up to see if anyone could come up with any ideas to help me try and extract them without removing the engine. The threads in the block are still good. The guy just snapped the heads off, so the bolt is flush with the block. So if there was a way to turn it out I could. What extracting tools would you recommend? I also posted this in the welding/fab forum and a couple of them suggested welding a bolt to the end of the snapped bolt and trying to extract it that way. I could try that, my grandfather has a tig and mig welder.

 

You may have a shot at welding a nut to whats left of the bolt.Any extractor is going to require drilling if there isn't much of the bolt sticking out.

 

Place a jack under the oil pan, remove the drivers side mount and the drivers side torque mount and jack up until you have enough space to work. To get up even higher remove the tranny mount and tranny torque mount. Go to town!!