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rear caliper broken bolt pickle 900 1995

posted by  muskox37 on  Tue Sep 10 12:34 CST 2013
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Well. . . I have managed to get myself in a real pickle trying to repair the rear brakes on my 940. One of the two bolts holding the caliper to the axle housing broke off clean and for the last three days on and off I have been trying to extract the remains of the bolt from the housing, all to no avail.

I have used PB Blaster, and various other fluids, drilled the bolt through from side to side, heated it with a propane torch, re-drilled using a larger bit,hit it with various drifts and am still coming up empty.

Part of the problem is that I cannot get straight on with my drill because of the axle housing's proximity to my power drill [the dust shield is no help either but I have been able to wire it up out of the way]. Thus the hole in the stub is not straight. This makes my efforts to use an 'easy-out' very tentative. I have broken these things off in previous efforts and now am very cautious about their use.

I am thinking of removing the axle half-shaft so that I can get a straight on approach to the bolt stub but don't know what kinds of problems I would be opening up. I had a look around the Brickboard but still am tentative about this action.

I am considering having the car towed to a local machine shop as a last gap measure.

Any ideas you might have would be appreciated.






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