Whats everyones solutions to rounded torx!!!???

1. Boothy_UK Banned Joined: Sep 2008 bastardville Posts: 860 a cunt for a eye

   #1 17th August 2009, 20:32

   as you might know im lowering the torsion bar myself atm
   or trying anyway, managed to get the anti-roll bar out today, however -
   the torx at either end of the torsion bars will NOT budge. ive got one off, and the washer...but the other 3!!! ugh, dispite the 2 at the opposite ends are seriously inaccesable to say the least, the facing one on the passenger side isnt going anywhere tbh.
   seriously, ive tryed pretty much everything possible
   one of them is rounding, am i going to have to drill it out and buy another screw??
   surely someones had this problem before? what did you do?!
   thanks
   J x
2. user_15989 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857

   #2 17th August 2009, 21:18

   Strange I have never had one stuck before. It has a real risk of going wrong but what you can do is drill the heads off the trox. Then pull the hole arm off along with the bars. You then use a vice to clamp up the stub of the torx that was left and unscrew that. Then get new torx bolts from PSA (they don't cost much)
3. vtr_cheshire Frequent Poster Joined: Feb 2009 Liverpool Posts: 560 Mk2 Vtr, Vauxhall Astra 1.9i, Fiesta ST

   #3 17th August 2009, 21:20

   Or you could hammer a bigger Torx bit in and hope for the best.
4. user_8040 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Dec 2005 MaDchester Posts: 8432 Vts

   #4 17th August 2009, 21:23

   or give me oral and ill come and be inventive again J x

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5. woopasize Infrequent Poster Joined: Jul 2009 isle of shite Posts: 155 Saxo lx 1.1

   #5 17th August 2009, 21:26

   i to tryed to lower the torsion bar today and i'm no mechanic i got to the part where your supposed to take the plates of each end and gave up due to the inaccessibility of it all and plus the fact i didnt have a slide hammer it was a real cock up really. on trying to put one of the screws back in it rounded so was really tamping! i say better left to the experts or expect serious head aches lol
6. dsh85 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Apr 2005 Teesside Posts: 8800 focus tdci, clio v6

   #6 17th August 2009, 21:26

   try and hammer it round with a flat headed scredriver or small chisel!
7. Steve Saxperience Hardcore! Joined: Mar 2005 Newcastle Upon Tyne Posts: 19910 CW Honda Integra DC5

   #7 17th August 2009, 21:33

   invest in an impact driver for next time, chizle in hammer will do it like.
8. evans1089 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jun 2007 Chesterfield Posts: 8935 Ibiza Cupra 204bhp

   #8 17th August 2009, 22:05

   get drill out. all nuts/bolts/screws i can never get out i get drill out get a whole straight through middle then you can weaken it, and it should easily come off.
9. stu-n-shell Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Feb 2007 Perth Posts: 4798 posi blue desire vt lookalike

   #9 17th August 2009, 22:08

   never been anywhere near the torxs bolts on my axel but could you not get a hacksaw blade or something and make a slit in it so you can then use a big flat head.
10. willsy West Midlands Joined: Nov 2005 Nuneaton (West Mids) Posts: 13835 '64 Volvo V40 R’Design, '89 Ph1 309 GTi, ‘97 Mk1 S

    #10 17th August 2009, 23:06

    Dremmel is the tool of the gods tbh
    
    make a nice lil groove in 1 side of the bolt then tap into it with a hammer and screwdriver once it shifts itll generally be finger tight the rest of the way out