Removing Striped Bolt?
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Removing Striped Bolt?
Hey everyone, I have an OBX rear upper strut bar that I have really been wanting to install, but I have a problem. When I got them soon after I got my 01' civic, I didn't know what I was doing and stripped one of the bolts holding the strut up in the body by turning the wratchet the wrong way. The bolt is completely rounded off. How could I go about removing that stripped bolt?
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Thats a nut, not a bolt, and you better be VERY careful when you try to take that off.... you don't want to mess up the stud in the strut hat.
2 things I can recommend...
The cheap way is to get a pair of vice grips, clamp them on like hell and hope it bites. If it does, you should be able to twist it loose, then it'll just spin off.
The right way to do it is to buy craftsman stripped nut removers. You hammer them on and the teeth in the insert dig in and back the nut out.
2 things I can recommend...
The cheap way is to get a pair of vice grips, clamp them on like hell and hope it bites. If it does, you should be able to twist it loose, then it'll just spin off.
The right way to do it is to buy craftsman stripped nut removers. You hammer them on and the teeth in the insert dig in and back the nut out.
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