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Not a problem on my motorcycle but you are a clever lot so Im pretty confident.

I serviced my car today, and all went well until it came to bleeding the brakes (first time on this car). The bleed nut was rusted in and through impatience and heavy-handedness I managed to completely round the thing off. Anybody got any ideas for removing the damn thing?

try and tap a smaller socket on or a pair of small vise grips should do it but be carefull not to snap it. if it snaps loosen the flexy of at the calliper and let the fluid drip through for a couple of min's then push the pistons back with a pair of mole grips on the flexy and nip the flexy back up. good luck.

Syltiz wrote:Not a problem on my motorcycle but you are a clever lot so Im pretty confident.

I serviced my car today, and all went well until it came to bleeding the brakes (first time on this car). The bleed nut was rusted in and through impatience and heavy-handedness I managed to completely round the thing off. Anybody got any ideas for removing the damn thing?

Cut across it with a hacksaw so that you can use a spade headed screwdriver. also get a can of wd40 and spray it for a day or 3 before trying again. Alternatively you could crimp the relevant pipe and cut the end off and fit a new end

Use a small easiout. It's like a reverse threaded drill bit. http://www.mytoolstore.com/hanson/extractr.html Looks like them. they sell them in Halfords. About a fiver or so

OR get a large hammer and trash the car. It'll go for scrap then and your problem will be solved

Whatever you do dont drill it out with a drill. (Use the hole that's there already and get an easiout to fit that.) It'll all go horribly wrong and you'll either fek up the hole, or you'll get small bits into the calliper and then it'll end up trashed from the inside out.

I've got some easy outs if you can't get any and fancy a trip to Chertsey (not far I know).

Oh, hold on.. rounded the nut shape off, or ripped the top bit off?

If it's just rounded, get a pipe wrench on it. as it turns, it tightens. once out fit a new bleed screw.

Application of heat generally helps.


If a blowlamp on the nipple doesn't work use it on the petrol tank.

pffff theres all my sugestions gone, even the torching the car one.


o o o oo o wait, what about a twist socket that cuts into it as it unscrews , nobodys suggested that
Like here

Git. Ive now found something else I want that the Missus most definately wont let me buy.

I'll have to go back into covert tool collecting mode... Like I did with motorbikes too...

you fellas definately do not disappoint

Thanks everyone - I will attack the problem again tomorrow.

Cheers

With a blowtorch? Good choice, Sir!

A good tip is to give the bolt a good whack with a hammer cleanly on the head. This usually helps to free the threads or 'breaking the seal' You would be amazed at how good this can be. (but some bolts just will never come out....Disclaimer )

paddyz1 wrote:A good tip is to give the bolt a good whack with a hammer cleanly on the head. This usually helps to free the threads or 'breaking the seal' You would be amazed at how good this can be. (but some bolts just will never come out....Disclaimer )

Neither will some nuts

paddyz1 wrote:A good tip is to give the bolt a good whack with a hammer cleanly on the head. This usually helps to free the threads or 'breaking the seal' You would be amazed at how good this can be. (but some bolts just will never come out....Disclaimer )

And tightening before untightening some bolts / nuts helps too.
Strange but true!

Wont work on a brake bleed screw / nipple tho'

A good pair of molegrips always does the job for me, but work it back and for. If the nipple has rounded the thing is probably a little too tight or seized with corrosion, personaly wouldnt touch it with an easy out!! they are only any good on something that is already free to turn, eg snapped stud or bolt that you cant get a grip on. Easy outs try to expand the any thing that is tight actually making it tighter!! especailly on small things!!