So i'm ------- stupid and now this bolt is stuck
#1
So i'm ------- stupid and now this bolt is stuck
I have a 06 zx-6r and I was installing some race rails on it (they're basically the top half of a stunt cage). You pull out the old motor mount bolts and then replace them with longer ones and run them through the rails and the motor mounts.
The rails that I got didn't come with bolts and I had to go find some from the hardware store. The one that I found for the front right seemed like it would be perfect but it wasn't. It was a normal 6 sided bolt and it slides into the race rail down a little bit of pipe. When the bolt is in the pipe there is basically no clearance between the bolt and the walls and so you can't fit a socket in there to tighten it down.
Well my genius idea was to take a hack saw and cut the top of the bolt to make it work for a flat head screwdriver. This is already a bad idea but I rushed and didn't even make the cut deep enough. Long story short I got the bolt in but it won't come out.
I am completely stumped as to how to get this bolt out. Any ideas?
The rails that I got didn't come with bolts and I had to go find some from the hardware store. The one that I found for the front right seemed like it would be perfect but it wasn't. It was a normal 6 sided bolt and it slides into the race rail down a little bit of pipe. When the bolt is in the pipe there is basically no clearance between the bolt and the walls and so you can't fit a socket in there to tighten it down.
Well my genius idea was to take a hack saw and cut the top of the bolt to make it work for a flat head screwdriver. This is already a bad idea but I rushed and didn't even make the cut deep enough. Long story short I got the bolt in but it won't come out.
I am completely stumped as to how to get this bolt out. Any ideas?
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Re: So i'm ------- stupid and now this bolt is stuck
Originally Posted by alpalwal
It's a big bolt. drilling it out would be a huge bitch.
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Re: So i'm ------- stupid and now this bolt is stuck
Originally Posted by gen4acclude
well guessing from your miss hap you are not able to weld another bolt to it, way to hard being drilling a bolt is difficult