Remove a broken bolt using a left handed drill bit 

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Dave Lassell or in a rusted outboard motor with corrosion all all, nevertheless still a very good video......

if the bolt head snapped off it's because it was in there so tight it took less torque to break the bolt than the thread seal.

What a pointless comment. It goes without saying that the bolt needs to be accessible for this, or any other method, to work.

Same issue with me and a few rusted bolts on my Xterra I just recently bought. Bolt head snapped on surface or below the surface that go to the undercarriage.

You have to drill it right out in that situation. Then re tap the thread. Your going back to the 1970's when we used to do that a lot as we kept cars 40 years.

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Wish I had known this about a month ago...thanks for the info

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What type of drill should I use for an anti clockwise rotation?

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Me either

I know several maintenance engineers that have never heard of them either. I told one a few days back and he thought I was winding him up! Thanks for the comment

How'd it go 10 years ago?

Word is he is still trying to remove that bolt.

He appears to still be a car guy, so I’m assuming success 😅

@@heavyprogressive76 Well, I just got the Harbor Freight 13 piece set, and my right angle drill attachment can't grip the cylinder shaft well enough. Wish it was a hex end...

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You also can use left handed tapered stud extractors instead of a drill. Standard tool.

@@adityakumarrai7691 Of course. But you still need to bore a hole to start the extractor. Using a left-handed drill bit will work with you, not against you, even if it fails to spin out the broken bolt or stud.

Brilliant idea

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Did it work?

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They are really useful ;-) Thanks for the comment

Do you have a house/wife/kids and a car yet. And a garage with big boy toys??

@@SitlessSkatemore question still relevant in the age of the cough

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+Ultimate Handyman What if it's a bolt in a car engine block with the engine still in would the engine have to be pulled out..

What do you do if you don't have a welder and you need to put your only vehicle back together? Hopefully that I put a crap load of anti-seize grease helps in using a left handed drill to back it out

sky hooks hahhahaha! how about the good ol chain/board stretcher.

There are plenty of things that you can try, these videos might give you some ideas- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MR2Dd30Wees.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dJfkCj3FWBs.html&t Best of luck with it 👍

"demonstration" ;-)

Drill wider and wider exactly in the middle until there's nothing left of the bolt but the threads, then pull the helical threads out with a dental pick.

@@beyondwhatisknown I hope he found a way to get his stick bolt out...

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@@premkumara8962 8 years later😂😂

Lmao

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Where's the link to you're video.

Copy & paste to the YT search box. watch?v=Y2AN3vl-ykg

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As a forty year professional mechanic, I can sat you are correct. Yesterday I was extracting a broken exhaust manifold bolt from a 4.8L GM engine. It was broken flush. It's a rare occasion that a left handed drill bit will back the bolt out. One must first consider why is the bolt broken. Is it cross threaded, rusted, bottomed out? Most of those conditions is going to prevent backing it out with a left handed bit. What is worse, breaking off a drill bit or an easy out because those are hardened and makes drilling them out almost impossible. On the 4.8 L yesterday, it was just a whore. It was an 8 X 1.25 and I finally ended up drilling it out and Heli-coiled it to a 10 X 1.25 Fortunately is was a Savana Van and I was working on #7 cylinder. I had removed the motor mount bolts and lifted the engine to give me good access. It ended up being a good permanent repair and will outlast the life of the vehicle.

What people are not factoring in here is that *if* the drill is almost as large as the root diameter of the bolt, rather than as shown here, (in my experience) the remnants will not have enough strength left to hold themselves outwards against the female thread. Generally what's left of the bolt (effectively little more than a helical coil) will wind itself out if you feed increasingly hard so the drill bites before it gets right through. The heat from drilling also helps. If you don't have a left handed bit the right size, just sharpen the tip of a RH bit the wrong way.

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How was getting it out kinda in the same situation

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@@ultimatehandyman does the reverse drill bit spin counter clockwise

@@speedracer175 Yes, it needs rotating counter clockwise for the drill bit to work ;-)

@@ultimatehandyman can I also drill the initial hole counter clockwise? Before the extraction drill.

@@speedracer175 Yes, providing you use a left-handed drill bit

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Guess we’ll never know...

But this is basic

theyre the normal ones in australia

they have no other purpose other than removing slipped/broken bolts.

And a left anded ammer. I talk like im and I've been living in Canada for 45 years.

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***** thx, it worked.

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You can get them in some ironmongers, or they are widely available on ebay- fave.co/2FRtoSK Thanks for the comment

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