Lude Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 well i spent about 5 hours yesterday removing the cam covers, or at least trying to. i removed/undid every bolt for the cam covers, and removed all the piping out the way & breathers etc. unfortunatly,i rounded one of the bolts off which hold the coilpack on! because the breather pipe was in the way, (tried undoing it with the breather on) so after removing all the difficult bolts, iv messed up on the coilpack one how can i remove this bolt? realy wana get the cam covers off to paint. was so frustrating spendin a whole day undoing the bolts, only to put them all back on again with out painting! any tools to remove it? its a 10mm bolt... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_jekyll Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 try a 9mm spline drive socket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2soops Posted September 27, 2010 Share Posted September 27, 2010 If its a normal 10mm bolt you can get sockets which only have 6 sides internally, not the usual 12. These are good at getting off rounded bolt heads so long as you haven't rounded it too far to be useful. Otherwise you could try to force an imperial socket on as the sizes are close but sometimes slightly smaller. Try 3/8 as this is only 9.5mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 Drill the head off it and be sure the swarf doesn't go anywhere it shouldn't, like inside the engine. Then remove the stem of the bolt with Mole grips or maybe even your fingers. Don't take short cuts, sockets need to go squarely onto bolt heads. Don't use a junk drill bit and DO NOT snap the drill off in the bolt head, get someone to do it for you if you are less than 100% confident. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 hammer a smaller size on. so if its a 10mm hammer a 9mm on and i bet you it comes off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lude Posted September 30, 2010 Author Share Posted September 30, 2010 thanks guys will try, did try hammering a 9mm on but didnt seem to wana go on cant beleive how long it took getting all the fiddly bolts out, every single one, then messing up on the bolt thats plain as day to see. if only i removed the breather tut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecoup Posted September 30, 2010 Share Posted September 30, 2010 i managed to get a spanner on that one when i did the coil packs, only just enough to crack it off, but enough, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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