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BlacXJeep:
Tried to do my drivers side axle u joint on my own today. Would have been simple except for the fact that out of the three bolts on the back side of the assembly, 2 are completely stripped out and yes i was using a 13mm 12pt socket. cant get them out for the life of me. so then to make matters worse i decided to button her back up and i over torqued the upper brake caliper bolt and snapped that off! Drives fine for now, but I'm not sure what the next step is. Drilling all of them out would be ridiculous, and then trying to tap them would be even more of a headache.  I guess I'm going to have to replace that whole piece??? Anyone good at this stuff (drilling and tapping)that wants to give it a shot with me some time next week? SIGHHHHHH :-\

reg:
if it comes down to it, I have a d30 sitting around i would part out.

kirksjeep:
You might want to pull it apart at the ball joints and gets some parts from reg.  You don't want to mess with steering and braking for safety reasons.

Mr Rock:

--- Quote from: BlacXJeep on April 30, 2010, 10:46:27 PM ---Tried to do my drivers side axle u joint on my own today. Would have been simple except for the fact that out of the three bolts on the back side of the assembly, 2 are completely stripped out and yes i was using a 13mm 12pt socket. cant get them out for the life of me. so then to make matters worse i decided to button her back up and i over torqued the upper brake caliper bolt and snapped that off! Drives fine for now, but I'm not sure what the next step is. Drilling all of them out would be ridiculous, and then trying to tap them would be even more of a headache.  I guess I'm going to have to replace that whole piece??? Anyone good at this stuff (drilling and tapping)that wants to give it a shot with me some time next week? SIGHHHHHH :-\

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Hey Andy, I use a 1/2 socket on those bolts, I just bang it on with a hammer! you can borrow my grinder and grind the heads offs of the three bearing bolts if that doesn't work. that's if the Caliper will come off! and if it does it shouldn't be to hard to drill it out!

rocket:
I have a set of bolt extractors that "thread" onto the damaged heads, might work.

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