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If you do drill it file the end flat and center punch it for a starter, drill low speed, lots of oil for cooling. Do not break the bit off as you can"t drill a bit out.

 

Yeah i think thats the problem too not enough heat on this last bolt i just tried that tool from Orileys it didnt move this bolt one bit. I ran the torch on it forever and nothing

 

Portable Torch Kit with Oxygen and Acetylene Tanks you would have to get the tanks fill at a local welding supply store and youtube how to work them. A million uses in you trucking ownership.

 

just don"t pull the trigger while heating or you cut the end of your stud off.

 

I don"t want to sound pushy but I have done this work for thirty plus years before I started driving again and this is worked 95% of the time. But I did end up drilling some out as they get cross thread at the factory. Sometime drill as large as possible and use an easyout when cool, may come out. Then your choice is see if you can and have room to tap it to tne next size or use a helicoil.

 

only problem with that is i would have to go buy a bigger bolt then lol

 

Not with a helicoil. You buy them based on your bolt size. The hole is drilled bigger and then tapped for the helicoil threads to thread into.

 

Also, with drilling, you have to be very careful to drill it straight and not too deep or as mentioned earlier, you might hit a water jacket and have to replace the cylinder head. I did that on a Ford explorer. After breaking a bit trying to drill the stud out and going through many types of bits to drill the broken bit out, I got too excited when it finally started drilling through, and I drilled off center and hit a water jacket.

 

Well no freaking wonder you broke a bolt. When we said to heat it with a torch we were talking about using a work tool. Not some camp ground toy.

 

Just had a vision of a boy scout with a propane torch in his jammies working on his truck. Aaaaaaaah