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Originally Posted by brown dog
Yeah, I've decided to go the extraction kit route. We'll see how this goes. Cross your fingers for me.
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I would undecide while you still can.
If those bolts are seized to the point of snapping while loosening then they are really bound. Depending on if there is a lot of rust evident, it's likely that they are cross threaded. Those front bolts are really easy to cross-thread.
Those bolt extractor bits can only stand so much torque and will snap off if over-wrenched.
The extractors are made of hardened steel. Once they break in a bolt you are pretty much done, you're not going to drill that extractor bit out with anything less than a wet diamond. You are down to torch and weld as a fix.
Instead, drill the whole bolt out and repair with a helicoil kit of the original size.
