Stripped one on each side… goddamn. So frustrating.
hi, kevin still waiting a reply from you thanks
Buy some shiny class 12.9 before you put anything back together, they are so nice
Welp, tried 2 different screw extractor kits from Home Depot and neither one could grab onto the screw hard enough to break the loctite.
Anyone have any advice? I can’t think of any other solution besides cutting a notch for a flathead, which I didn’t want to have to do.
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If thats the last screw you can take the drive off as a whole and rotate the adapter around the pivot of the screw if that makes sense.
Edit: looks like it rotates freely as in the screw is not tightened down, just loctited. My b
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Drill the head off it and remove the nub with vice grips
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you can take another bolt or any pieces of metal that can fit in the hole then do a spot weld and then you can unscrew the original flat head bolt , l
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btw i use mig welder and be careful with the heat
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no welder unfortunately
you can ask to a mecanic if he know what he’s doing you need to use low heat setting to not melting the aluminium around
Maybe try a small sharp sharp hardened center punch on the outer part of the screw. Try holding the punch straight on till it digs in a bit to give it something to bite onto then angle the chisel and tap it loose. Don’t have this drive and not sure if tapping it with a center punch would damage it though. Sometimes just shocking it can help free bolts up also. Good luck!
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This works every time
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what do y’all use to drill the head off?
Unless you don’t have enough nub, or the nub has been compromised… say, by trying to use an extractor 
I fucking hate those screw extractors. They’ve never worked for me.
Torx bit has worked every time for me tho.
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A drill
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I mean what kind of bit hahaha
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1/4”
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You wanna use a bit just slightly oversized of the shaft of the screw.
Those bolts are m4 iirc, i’d use a 5mm bit.
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yeah tbh idk if there’s even enough nub to grab sadly
did you try to heat up with a torch and i use a punch and hammer and then use a torx bit at the same time
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