<VV> frozen sheared bolts

[Geoff Johnson]

If you have access to a wire feed or mig welder that is the best approach 
IMHO.  Use that all the time whenever something breaks or strips.  Has 
never failed to work.  Just stick a nut over  the part and weld it to the 
broken fastener.     Then use the nut to back it out.
-Hope that helps!
Geoff Johnson

--On Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:06 PM -0400 Harry Yarnell 
<hyarnell1@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Its happened again; snapped off bolts. I've tackled this before, never
> satisfied that the approach I used was the best (removal of the
> 'remains'). I've tried solvents (PB blaster, etc), heat (torch), and
> drilling with/without Easyout. Heat and beeswax. What are YOUR successful
> methods? BTW, these are two steel bolts into an aluminum transaxle at the
> motormount of a FWD Coupe Deville.
>
> Harry Yarnell
> perryman garage and orphanage
> perryman, MD
> hyarnell1@earthlink.net
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It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long,
the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus
mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and
the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a
racecar.

-Phillip J. Fry