I’m new to all of this and while changing my stock shocks for coilovers the bolt that holds the lower mount and idk if it’s the lower control arm but it broke in half and is stuck without a way to remove it. Any ideas on how to deal with it?
Never seen one one of those break, try drilling it out. Maybe soak it with some penetrating fluid for a day and try an extractor.
Yea that’s what I was thinking and if I can’t get it out I think I’ll have to get a new front fork or something.
Try an extractor first. Center punch the bolt as accurately as you can, drill a pilot hole, drill a hole for your extractor, heat the bolt and metal around it, install your extractor, remove the bolt. The more heat the better, get it cherry red. Just be mindful of the strut if it is still installed.
If that does not work, remove the extractor, let everything cool, then slowly drill the bolt out, stepping up your drill bit size one at a time. This is why you need the center punch and to be as centered as possible with the hole you drill. As you make the hole larger, try bigger extractors. If you cannot extract the bolt, get as close as possible to the original size of the hole as possible without going bigger. If you are patient, you can drill the bolt out to the point where you just barely start to see threads, then you can run a tap through the hole and hopefully save the threads. If that fails you’ll need to drill and tap to the next size bolt, or replace the fork.
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Yeah I took it to a friend of mine and he tried doing that but wasn’t able to get it out and I don’t have a tap so I just went and got some new forks. Do you know what bolt size I would need for the forks?