OUCH!!! Sheared bolt!!! Thank You letter!!!

Posted by Tim Malin on April 13, 2002 at 10:47:03 from (207.190.93.170):

To all of you who perhaps didn't receive this as personal e-mail, thank you SO MUCH for your input on removing the sheared bolt. It was the first one I have ever done, and did it in fashion. To express my feelings, I must post the story.
I had two friends come over and help and we were having one heck of a time getting it out in a half hour. I was leaning over the tool box trying to figure out what I did wrong when one of them jokingly said I should just torch it out (in disregards to the tractor). I couldn't believe it. I had forgot to torch it, and I already drilled a hole in it. I could've shot myself. I had already doused it in Liquid Wrench (greatest stuff on earth) and something similiar to WD-40, so I figured it had penetrated enough. I put the Easy Out in the drill and at a slow speed it had torqued really, really nice, but becuase of the torque in the reverse gear it would slip out. I was at my wits end, and all three of us were quiet in the shed working out the problem, one still under the tractor (I did not have a socket big enough to remove the casting from the bottom. I could've removed two with a pipe wrench, but it would have done me no good). He picked up the drill with the 5/32" bit still in it and in a mad rage drilled at all angles and just pounded it in there. I did not realize he was being this rough, otherwise I probably would've stopped him. We had already given up on the drill and put the easy out in a mini vice-grips. He put it in there and tapped it into it with a wrench, and nearly without effort it popped out. I am in a wreck trying to compensate for heating and hands me the vice-grips in disgustion, "You can give it a try." I did not want to go back under there, but reluctantly walked over to it. as I was preparing the easy out in the grips before crawling underneath, I noticed a little bolt on the top. Needless to say, it was a celebration of a fine joke. It was out, and the one inch collumn where the bolt goes was a 3/8 inch bolt that we removed. It had absolutly filled with dirt, and no wonder why the penetrating fluids weren't getting right to the bolt when I sprayed it on top. As I went to re-thread the hole, a little bit was breaking through the paper thin walls of the cast. I stopped, sprayed some 80 or whatever it was up into the hole, and put a new bolt in, calling it good enough. Good as new, and a lot better than it was before, thanks to all of you. Congradulations if you read all of this, and I look forward to talking with all of you again on the forum. Your friend, Tim Malin

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