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Jun 30, 2005

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Stripped Bolt ahhh!!! why why why????

This is the first time that I post a thread asking for help. It's not that I know everything, I suppose our 7th gen vic is so reliable that nothing major really goes wrong

. I have a 2001 Civic by the way

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Here is the story. I was on the phone with my girl-friend while trying to bleed my brakes. Took my wheels off and had the whole car jacked up. Everything went so smooth as I had planned UNTIL I tried to loosen the 8mm bleed screw with one of these:

I guess I was distracted by my gf and then next thing you know, the damn bolt stripped on one side. I knew better not to continue, so I went to Auto Zone and bought myself a set of THESE:

OH MAN.... that did not help either. Now I am stuck with a bleed bolt similar to this:

The bolt above is a brand new replacement for bolt that I stripped. The red-highlighted portion on the bolt is the place where it is stripped. Now I can't get the stupid thing off. And it's so hard to get to that area too. Ahhhhh!!! Why does Honda have to make the bleed bolt in such a hard to reach place... why? why? why? why? why???? ahhhhhhhhh!!!! The complexity

Any suggestions guys?? How would you take this off??? Your help is greatly appreciated. For the time being, the gf is to blame for distracting me haha j/k.... but

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Jun 30, 2005

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LOCK WRENCH should get that off

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Jun 30, 2005

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HEY!!! I have one of those lol !! But the bolt is really worn out and there is very limited space in between the brake drum. I'm a little doubtful if the lock wrench can fit, but I'll try it tomorrow; hope it works

. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Lewis.

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Use a flare nut wrench...

This might be helpful also...
http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/tools/flare_nut_wrench.htm

Jun 30, 2005

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The flare nut wrench is a good idea for better grip on a nut that is around a hose. But my nut is totally stripped. Man... that photo really helped though. The nut that I stripped is the one in the red circle (below):

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Jul 1, 2005

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Vise grip pliers are your only hope!! If you cant get it off then u would have to replace the whole line........

Jul 1, 2005

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Replace the whole line just for a BLEED SCREW???? NooOOoOOoOOoOOooo..... Say it isn't so

Well, I'm going to try every suggestion so far today when I get home from work. Keep the suggestions and advices rolling. Thanks!

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Jul 1, 2005

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if worse comes to worse you can remove the wheel cylinder and put it in a vise than grab that bleeder with the vise grips. install new bleeder and bleed the brakes. good luck. and make sure that those vise grips are on tight.

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****.... for $25 just go buy a NEW wheel cylinder and the trouble. You gotta disassemble the whole drum shoe set to get the cylinder out, so I'd avoid it if possible. You should have been able to remove the bleed screw with an open ended wrench (I do all the time), so you probably just didn't have it on straight.
If you can't get a pair of vice grips back there, you're gonna have to take some **** apart. There's not really a way around that.

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flare wrench is what you should of used in the first place but I say get some plies to get the stripped one off then replace it and try to keep the brake fluid to a minium or its going to be one heck of a mess

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there is this socket, that has lil cyclinders in it which allow for custom bolts, and it lets u put the bolt in, and it locks it in, or u can just get a minature adjustable wrench and see if that works...hope all works out well

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Update: Thanks guys! After all that trouble, it worked! I flame torched the bleed bolt for about a minute or so, tried to twist it with the vise grips but didn't work. So I beat the crap out of the bolt with a hammer

then flame torched it again, used the vise grips and it finally unscrewed

Next time, my focus will be on the car instead of the girl friend. No more talking on the phone while working on the car for me

Thanks again guys for all the help!

Jul 6, 2005

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Dont Focus on the girlfriend then find... Focus on the stupid car... and dont give me the crap that the car take u to see me... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh