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Originally Posted by slosteve
So I start what I think will be a simple maintenance project and 'bam', right away something goes awry. I've got a rear axle seal leaking on my '71, so as I'm taking it apart, I remove the differential pinion shaft 'lockpin' and all that comes out is about 1 inch of the threaded part of the bolt - the rest remaining in the hole. I finally get the broken part out and a friend tells me "good luck finding a new one"! Are these items really hard to find?
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From another post:::
This broken bolt is so common. I've had three of them in the last 6mths at our shop. We use a specialty tool that gets this done in about 10 min. Got ours from either a Snap-on truck or Matco, can't remember, but did a search on google and found them online at
www.fabbriassociates.com,
www.etoolcart.com,
www.skywaytools.com and even ebay. If time is money this kit is worth a months pay because we don't worry about damaging the carriers anymore!
Hope this helps someone:::