snapped cam ladder bolts..

1. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #1 9th July 2013, 16:54

   bit pissed off i went to strip my jp4 head down yesterday and i ended up snapping 2 cam ladder bolts :O
   
   after i snapped the first one i tried the other side (so if it happened again i wouldn't have two snapped bolts on the same ladder)
   
   anyway it happened again!!
   
   the bolt seems to come out alright and then right at the end it snaps
   
   i never had a problem with the j4 head that i stripped but im scared to do another one in case i snap another one its ridiculous, it doesn't even seem to get any tighter or stiffer before they break
   
   maybe i should crack them off and drop a little oil in the holes as the head has been sat for a fair while
   
   hoping the engineer shop can remove the two ive snapped already
   
   any tricks to get them out safely?
2. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #2 9th July 2013, 19:13

   all sorted, i cracked the bolts off and sprayed liberal amounts of wd40 in the hole and they all came out, even better there was enough of the snapped studs protruding from the head so i could get them out
3. Keegan Infrequent Poster Joined: Dec 2012 Glasgow/ Hamilton Posts: 190 2002 Saxo VTR - 2002 Saxo VTS

   #3 9th July 2013, 19:33

   an easy fix is always nice . usually it goes from bad to worse lol
4. user_32315 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Mar 2009 Uppingham, Rutland Posts: 9569 mk1 JP4'd VTR, '16 Fabia Monte Carlo

   #4 9th July 2013, 19:38

   haha it sure does, things seem to have gone too well
5. axsaxoman Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jan 2003 Scotland Posts: 3380

   #5 10th July 2013, 08:25

   must have been over tightened at some time