Broken bolt help

[killer171]

hey i was wondering i broke a trailing arm bolt in the hole and was wondering how do i get it out??? Thank u

 

[modded93xlt]

There are a few ways. Cleanest is to drill and use an easy out, or you could weld a bolt to it and back out the bolt with a wrench, could try to grab it with a vice grips(if there is anything to grab onto), and if all else fails start drilling The center of it and hope it let's loose before you have to drill the whole bolt out and re-tap the threads. (I have gotten lucky a few times starting with a small bit and working up, it seems sometime taking the center out of the bolt it looses it's hold on the threads and will start to spin with the drill bit.) Good luck!

 

[rmkboxer]

heat is your friend in this situation, make sure you heat it up good because of the loctite. you maybeable to spin it out but probably will need either one of the options stated above

 

[omernikski]

Drill a small pilot hole in the center, rmk boxer is right heat is good, get yourself a left handed drillbit and hopefully it grab hard enough to back the bolt out.

 

[killer171]

Well i busted an extractor and was wondering if there is a way to remove that piece and replace it with the same piece from a another sled?

 

[steepndeeper]

Yes, it's a pretty tedious job getting the step out without bending everything up. I did the same thing on an old mid 80s chassis 10 years ago and couldn't find the correct part(step) so I had a machine shop remove the broken extractor and bolt. They used a torch and then retapped the hole.

 

[killer171]

ok but i have a ton of polaris chassis parts the same year how do i get it out?

 

[rp7x]

snaped off

take a 7/16" nut put over the broken bolt weld them through the center with a mig welder the heat will help the locktite let go should back rite out , somtimes it takes a couple times / good luck

 

[killer171]

I apreciate the answers and i did get it out with a 7/16 bolt welded. thank you for all the help

 

[X2Freeride]

This was a poor setup by Polaris in the first place. This is why You see Bolts all the way through on the PRO X chassis.