Won't it let you access the bolt? Am I missing something? The bolt isn't screwed into item 4, it goes into the engine. right? Thats what it looks like.
My thinking was it you remove item 4, you might have enough shank to get something on it, or easy access to drill it as it wouldn't be down it the cover hole, or take it to a welder who would tack weld a nut on it and spin it out. Do that a lot with outboards.
i assume you say if I removed item 4 there would be more space to work on?
Maybe, but very marginally, not worth it.
I had an idea from facebook
Use the remaining bolt as a guide to drill a hole in the stuck part
Since the issue here is distance (to far inside) and size (small diameter bolt, hard to center dril) drilling a hole in the remaining bolt and using that bolt as a guide should do the trick of drilling a hole in the center in the stuck part, than use a bolt extractor.
On that remaining bolt one could use precision material.
experience will teach you that 54 nm is a lot of torque and no way was correct for such a small bolt
experience will also teach you that you do not need to torque those bolts to an exact specification
a bit beyond snug is perfect and experience also teaches you that 'feeling'
this is a case where being too absorbed with specs resulted in a problem
no problem in the end you learned something and you will get your bike back together just fine and be back on the road
we all make mistakes and hopefully learn from them
Your using the rest of the bolt as a guide is intriguing, but I suspect it is going to be darned hard to drill straight down through the bolt and stay perfectly centered. It's something a machine shop should be able to do for you though.
Alternatively, could you just drill out the bolt completely (leaving the threads if possible) and then use a thread chaser to remove the bits of bolt left in the threads?
Hey Riko,
I had a similar problem with a bolt that sheared off in an engine case. I put the case in a pilar drill and made a dead straight hole. Then used an Eazy Out to remove the bolt. Heating the case up with a blow lamp will usually help. In that instance tho, the bolt had corroded and snapped on removal. So quite easy to get out as it wasn't over torqued like yours.
That said, in your case, and if it were me, I'd be tempted to leave it. It's a pain to strip it down just for that and there is potential for making a more drastic mistake.
Also, I don't fancy your chances. If it snapped because you were applying that much force, it's going to be well stuck in there... As said before the 3 bolts will be fine, it's only a light guard.
It looks from the pics that the bolt snapped way down the hole. If you used a shorter bolt would there be enough thread left in the hole to get a fix. You don't need much.
Actually, thinking about it, if you were tightening it then i don't suppose it could have snapped part way down the thread.... So, maybe not.
the broken piece has been removed!
I did not see how he did it so I did check it at home
and yep, its gone and a new bolt is in place.
nice clean pro job!
it wasn't easy the dealer said
(07-29-2016, 12:10 AM)Riko_imp Wrote: [ -> ]the broken piece has been removed!
I did not see how he did it so I did check it at home and yep, its gone and a new bolt is in place.
nice clean pro job!
it wasn't easy the dealer said
Great! Sometimes it's best to let the professionals handle things.
Now that the crisis is over, I have a related question.... was it real dirty behind that cover?
not necessarily behind the cover, but all the dirt got stuck on the inside of that cover!