stripped hayes rotor bolts! help!

[Islandrider]

I got 5 bolts off with my torx wrench fine and one was abit stripped and I couldnt get it. I tried a few times and made it worse :(
So with a dremel tool I cut out a pattern across it for a flathead screw driver. That didnt work and now I have no idea how to get this out.

Any suggestions? I need my new wheels on my bike for whistler this weekend!

[AnTi-TrAiL_nAzI]

vice grips agross the top of it..
make them dam fucking tight tho man. .were talkin the triangular ones rite?

[JSinclair]

E-Z out and a drill.

Done like dinner.

[biggles604]

If those don't work, then a 5.5mm drill and drill the head. Since it's an M5 screw, when you get through the head, it will pop off, once off, you can probably remove the rest of it by hand.

[corey@nsmb.com]

You should be able to get it out using the methods you tried if it was torqued properly.

A secret about these sorts of things...the threads sound like they are seized a bit, and you have lock-tite in there too. So..what you can do is use a hammer, and tap the head of the bolt severl times with sharp, hard hits. This will jar it enough to often break the threads free and make it easier to remove.

I would go that route before power tools.

[Darklord]

If you don't want to (or can't) ez-out the bolt (after you've drilled the head off), just leave it.
5 rotor bolts will give you no problem, don't worry about it. DH pros actually run 4-5 bolts only, as a weight saving measure.

[tim_liong]

I got 5 bolts off with my torx wrench fine and one was abit stripped and I couldnt get it. I tried a few times and made it worse :(
So with a dremel tool I cut out a pattern across it for a flathead screw driver. That didnt work and now I have no idea how to get this out.

Any suggestions? I need my new wheels on my bike for whistler this weekend!

I've done this too. I also have a dremel and what I did was cut 2 edges off the head so that my vicegrips had something to grab onto. easy!

[Islandrider]

You should be able to get it out using the methods you tried if it was torqued properly.

A secret about these sorts of things...the threads sound like they are seized a bit, and you have lock-tite in there too. So..what you can do is use a hammer, and tap the head of the bolt severl times with sharp, hard hits. This will jar it enough to often break the threads free and make it easier to remove.

I would go that route before power tools.

Okay I will try that then goto the other suggestions. Thanks everyone :)

[Professor Frink]

I already told you how to. You're just a nub, son.

[Jeff M]

DH pros actually run 4-5 bolts only, as a weight saving measure.

:lol:

[rowdy01]

Doesn`t Can tire sell those screws that let you unscrew a bolt......sorry, i know that sounds stupid, but they screw into the bolt reverse like and lock into the bolt, thus removing the bolt. They really do work.

[switch]

E-Z out and a drill.

Done like dinner.Agreed. Works for me every time I have a problem with a bolt.

E-Z outs are your friend. :)

[HIBuLlitT]

Doesn`t Can tire sell those screws that let you unscrew a bolt......sorry, i know that sounds stupid, but they screw into the bolt reverse like and lock into the bolt, thus removing the bolt. They really do work.

yes, they are called "easy outs". You have to drill a hol in the middle of the
frozen/broken bolt. I prefer the square taper ones.


Just remember!!! If you break that inside the hole you drilled, they can be close to impossible to get out, and forget about drilling it out they are hardened steel.


good luck

[Rosscofat]

mark just throw it at the ground

[HIBuLlitT]

^^ :dizzy:

[Jay T.]

i take a dremel, file down two peices flat, relativly straight across from each other, and clamp on with some vice grips, turn and if the sides are flat enough she should srew out nicely, hell i have even flattened the side of the bolt with a file before lol

[SkunkworkS]

I took a rather big flathead, then a hammer.

Hammered the flathead into the head of the bolt until it was at a depth that stuck, then vice gripped the flathead and cranked from there on.

It probably would've remained stuck if it hadn't been for the additional leverage in the vice grip.

[Coastal]

you can try a impact driver. It spins as you hit it with a hammer. Works good every time I use one.

[HIBuLlitT]

you can try a impact driver. It spins as you hit it with a hammer. Works good every time I use one.

Just remember of you hit the rotor, you could be screwed. :cry: