How to Remove Broken Bolts and Studs EVERY TIME.

This video will show you 5 easy methods on how you can remove broken, stubborn or stripped bolts and screws at home.

All the tools used in this video are readily available from your local hardware or tool store.

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[BroomysGarage]

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[odb_roc_hound]

My best luck at seized bolts has been, soak with penetrating oil, let sit, spray again, wipe away excess drips, heat with torch. Penetrating oil will light, that’s fine, be careful of surrounding items. Once good and hot hit it with CRC Freeze-Off, many times you will hear a audible pop as the bolt loosens, immediately use wrench/extractor to remove, this has worked on severely rusted bolts on high mileage cars from the rust-belt Northeast US.

[markchodroff]

Great ideas! BUT ! 50 + years as a mechanic on industrial equipment has its unique problems ? 1/3 of the time we had to drill out the bolt and collapse the threads or drill and tap the thread hole again ! Some bolts were broken off for years and became one with the metal! There is always a way for a repair, it’s just about the time, money and knowledge of doing it . Thanks for the video!

[melanieenglert]

Great video. I agree with you at 1:24 that HATE will get the job done.

[jondavis]

Can you break off an exhaust bolt that’s actually in a car where you don’t have the broken stud in a vice and all the room in the world to get it out? You know real life situation.

[simonilett]

The best method by far is method number 7...EXPLOSIVES!!💣💥

[D.Edward]

First! You showed us a broken stud that was broken off even with the surface. Then, when you welded your choice of a gripper to it you showed a stud that was sticking out. What's up with that!? "cheers!"

[jazzmangocats]

Keep the videos coming. They are super handy and really well shot/edited.
This ones timely as I'm about to try to replace a BMW exhaust manifold with some broken studs.

[UzumakiGarage]

Thanks for the Tig welding method. I saw another way of putting a short bit of copper tube in the hole first before adding weld to the bolt. keep adding filler to bring it up to the surface. then do your washer method. Do you like that idea?

[enoz.j]

How come when you started welding the nut, the thread magically appeared?

[ronniejohnson]

If you have a bolt stuck up like the one he showed, chuck up your drill and put heat in it bolt. Reverse it straight out.

If have to drill the bolt, drive a torque bit into the hole and then use it in a drill or wrench to back it out after heat. You can drill it and use a soldering iron to heat it if it is in magnesium. I specifically use these methods for my work. I’m a pneumatic tool technician and the official broke fastener extraction engineer. The tools that I work on are aluminum or magnesium bodies with socket head bolts. Some of the tools are $500 for an empty body.

[scottfranco]

I saw the video sometime back when. Then this week it happened, the $300 pool pump I was working on sheared clean off flat to the surface. I hacked on it with the usual combination of anti-sieze, and trying to turn it with a chisel, no luck. I drilled the middle, slipping once and drilling the pump instead. After making the center hole, I used an extractor. The tip of it is still in the bolt, since it, too, sheared off nicely.

I remembered I'd seen a video on this, so looked it up. The first try was to weld a nut with a circular flat. It too, sheared, but I figured that weld was not too good. The biggest problem was getting electrical contact with the motor, which took lots of wire brushing before it worked. For the second try, I used the washer method. I like that a lot better, since it allows you to get a good weld to the bolt first. Then I welded the nut on. Lots of slowly applied torque and off it came.

Thanks!

[sergiosmith]

I like the method, but the stud you removed was not the one you broke below the surface.

[robertott]

As a mechanic, retired, we use to heat the broken bolt with a torch to red hot and cool with water right away. Most would just turn out easy because the rust holding it was broken free.

[brandondobschutz]

Use your grinder to make a large flat head screwdriver notch in the stuck bolt. Yes you will notch a small amount of metal around the thread. If this still works for your situation you go ahead and heat up the stud and then use your large flat head to unscrew the hot bolt.

[happydavid]

Your demo did not relate to the very tricky situation you presented us with (a bolt sheered off below the surface). Unless you show us your technique of welding that recessed stud to the washer and then to the nut, how can we amateurs copy what you are doing? All you showed us was you welding a nut to a thread that was magically well above the surface. I’m not sure what to make of it or how to do it.

[joshualoberg]

I wasn't sure if I would follow until you killed it with fire. Excellent work

[RobinIntell]

What if changing the valve (aka camshaft) cover and the bolt right next to the timing chain breaks off. You can't weld the valve cover bolts stuck down in there can you? Thanks

[WeLoveCommodores]

7th method. Get someone else to do it lol
Loving the videos mate.

[CatalinaAVX]

Woah, wtf happened between 6.08 and 6.09 ?! I take it another bolt body or threaded rod was cut and inserted into nut then conductive heat welded it together? Or was entire piece rendered molten? I'm not a welder obvs. Was the washer tacked on first?