I took out my passenger seat for the texas mile last year and used a too powerful impact driver for the job. Now my bolts are overtorqued in there and a couple of the heads are stripped.

Any ideas of how to get the bolts out other than drilling them out? I just want to be able to reuse the hole.

Also, anyone have extra bolts lying around?

Thanks!

 

A big-*** easy-out, which requires some drilling.

Can soak it a bit in PB blaster..

Or you can use the gator socket (its a socket with a bunch of steel pins inside that will grip rounded bolts) - http://www.amazon.com/Gator-Grip-ETC.../dp/B000065CJ8

A small pipe wrench if you can get it on there =/

GL

 

i just did the exact same thing, the 2 bolts on back side of drivers seat were just TQ'ED in dere, a friend with air tools managed to get a socket on them, i stopped before ai totally destroyed the heads, my next stop was the drill and the B A easy out as well,,, got lucky and got gt3's...they're a WoW

 

What did you guys tq them to, 300?

 

sorry no bolts but good quality 6 point socket would be good start & there are bolt extractors that are a socket w/ a swirl inside that work well too.A good old tap should clean the the treads up & the bolts are nothing special & should be available at your local hardware store