any ideas

[juggalotus40]

i tried taking of the starter from another car a monte carlo and its the worst placeto unscrew the two bolts that hold it so after i took the first one of i try taking the secont one off and i couldnt do it i went to autosone and i bought some lube like liquid wrench but that didnt help either so i kinda messed ip the head of the bolt while trying to unsrew it again

any ideas to how i can take it off myself thanks

[Yanks0114]

I have a few ideas...

1. Post in the correct forum. (This may be the first time in history that a post needs to be moved from general to gen 1)
2. Try punctuation and spell check.
3. Give us a little more background on the problem

I think you are trying to take a starter from a monte carlo but you can't remove the bolts?

Are you planning to use the starter in your solara?

[krook]

i tried taking of the starter from another car a monte carlo and its the worst placeto unscrew the two bolts that hold it so after i took the first one of i try taking the secont one off and i couldnt do it i went to autosone and i bought some lube like liquid wrench but that didnt help either so i kinda messed ip the head of the bolt while trying to unsrew it again

any ideas to how i can take it off myself thanks

yeah, use an extenshun on a breakerbar with 3/8 drive whutsize si the bowlt that's holding tha alternativator to the monty car low


Also, here: ,.;'"()*!?=+*^%:

i brought some punctuation marks with me. let's share.

[juggalotus40]

Yanks0114


sorry for the grammar errors i was in a hurry. i'm just trying to get the bolt off, because my other car needs a new starter. i'm not planing to put it in the solara


krook its a 5/8 bolt but as i said before i damaged it a little. i just wanted to know if there is any way for me to take it off. i used penetration lube and it didnt help. so im running out of ideas

Thanks for your replies

[PXLpainter]

^^ LOL! He said "penetration lube"!

Yeah - I'm feeling very juvenile today!

[crispone]

BWAAAAAAHHHHHHhhhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha!!!!



(I didn't even NEED to post to BWAH on THIS thread!)


Get a SIX POINT SOCKET and "HAMMER" it onto the bolt head if you have "dinged" the hex points up a bit. (An IMPACT socket will often do the trick... they are also usually toleranced with LESS clearance, so they should GRAB the hex head "snugger". )

Don't forget, CHEAP 12 POINT sockets are toleranced VERY "forgivingly" most of the time... INCREASING the chances of "rounding" points on a hex head.

BUMP to using a BREAKER bar at that point. MAKE SURE you have AXIAL ALIGNMENT with the BOLT and your SOCKET as well... even just a LITTLE SKEW and you can ROUND heads terribly.

If ALL that doesn't work... get out a small jewelers file or Dremel tool and carefully craft the NEXT SIZE DOWN hex head out of the rounded one. THEN use the correct HIGH QUALITY SIX POINT socket to remove, as you should have done in the FIRST place.


...just my thoughts.


Oh, yeah... one last thing. DON'T BE PUTTING THE "LUBE" (whatever kind you employ for PENETRATION) on the HEAD END of the bolt... place it on the THREAD end ONLY!

ALSO, you can often "BREAK THREAD" by RAPPING on the head or any exposed threaded end with a hammer and something to strike with... however, if you rap on the threaded bolt end, DON'T used something that will "deform" or "flare" the bold/threads and make it worse.

Good Luck.

-crisp

[Sentinel]

They make "rounded bolt removers" that are like inverted easy outs (if you know what that is) that are basically a coarse l/h internal thread thingie that you screw on to the bolt, and the backwards threads grab it so you can remove it.

[crispone]

^^ LOL! He said "penetration lube"!

Yeah - I'm feeling very juvenile today!

You NEVER used KY to lube 'yer "bolt" HEAD?




-crisp

[NeFaRiOuS_SLE]

^^No, but I've used Astroglide with good results.