Busted a bolt on the cowl vent

[rally]

Originally Posted by davepl

I'd bet for that little weld it should make no real difference. But I'm not a weldor, just a welder.

haha me neither. I used to do welding on military grade aluminum with a MIG welder with Argon, and did some stick welding in high school, but I was never trained and mostly learned through trial and error. And I've never ran flux core before, but picked it up because I was too lazy to get some shielding gas at the time. Hopefully, I learned enough not to ruin my paint removing that bolt...we will see.

[jeffahart]

That flux core is going to spatter. Get some easy outs, you need to have them around anyhow. If it broke the head off in the first place then the chisel or punch method probably wont work anyway. Plus with easy outs, your half way to a tap job, if it comes to that.

I'm an expert, I have one torque spec... tighten until it moves freely, then back off a quarter turn!

[rally]

Originally Posted by jeffahart

That flux core is going to spatter. Get some easy outs, you need to have them around anyhow. If it broke the head off in the first place then the chisel or punch method probably wont work anyway. Plus with easy outs, your half way to a tap job, if it comes to that.

I'm an expert, I have one torque spec... tighten until it moves freely, then back off a quarter turn!

Ok, I'll grab an easy out and a tap set. You're probably right...if it's stuck that bad, it might just take the threads with it when it comes out. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a helicoil job...