As I was tighting up the screws on my oil pump cover fix I must have overtighten one of them and pop it broke flush off. Any ideas of how to get the stud out? I have tried a right angle drill to no help. Do I have to take the timing cover off? Please help!!!
Oil pump screw broke off HELP!!!!!!!
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It will be very difficult to drill-out the screw with the oil pump cover in place and the timing cover installed. Were you using a left-handed bit? If not, that was your first error. If you are lucky you can remove the cover and expose enough of the broken screw that you can get ahold of it with vicegrips or the like.
The bit is cut opposite of normal, so when you're drilling in it is turning in the direction that would loosen a normal fastiner.
WOW, breaking a Philips head screw is doing something!
I'd pull the cover back off and then try these tricks to get it out. What is left is only loose in there so it doesn't take a large amount of force to get it out.
1. if there is just a little sticking out I use a small pair of diagonal cutters and get a bite onto the end of the screw. Orientate the cutter along the screw shaft and not as if you were cutting off a piece. With a good bite you can turn out a real stubborn screw if need be.
2. Krazy glue (gel formular). Just glue on another smaller screw and turn it out. Glue like this is moisture cured and I will usually breath on it so it sets up quickly. This might be hard where you are working.
3. Use a small pin punch and drive the screw around by hitting the edge of the screw. A spring loaded center punch is ideal for this as all you have to do is press the punch against the side and let the spring do the work.
4. Last resort is a drill bit especially since you are dealing with aluminum and it's sure to walk off the steel screw and drill into the housing.
Good luck
I'd pull the cover back off and then try these tricks to get it out. What is left is only loose in there so it doesn't take a large amount of force to get it out.
1. if there is just a little sticking out I use a small pair of diagonal cutters and get a bite onto the end of the screw. Orientate the cutter along the screw shaft and not as if you were cutting off a piece. With a good bite you can turn out a real stubborn screw if need be.
2. Krazy glue (gel formular). Just glue on another smaller screw and turn it out. Glue like this is moisture cured and I will usually breath on it so it sets up quickly. This might be hard where you are working.
3. Use a small pin punch and drive the screw around by hitting the edge of the screw. A spring loaded center punch is ideal for this as all you have to do is press the punch against the side and let the spring do the work.
4. Last resort is a drill bit especially since you are dealing with aluminum and it's sure to walk off the steel screw and drill into the housing.
Good luck
Like an Easy out. But I recommend after center punching it and drill the pilot hole for the Easy Out drill bit, leave some meat on the screw that is broke off in the threads. Otherwise you will create a larger hole and need a Tap and Dye also, increasing the circumference of ..
My .002
Also.. do not break the Easy Out in the aluminum. NOW its a problem as the Easy Out is a hardened steel and drilling a pilot hole into it is Rough at best.
I am late to the party.. sorry. Give me the Green dude with the fingers..
I'm pretty sure, he already drilled all the way through the oil pump to the back of the exhaust system.
Just my 2cent
