I need to know what the thread size is. If someone can take a thread guage and tell me how many threads per inch. I believe its metric. Either 1.25 or 1.5. Thanks.
Sorry the bolt I'm talking about is the one that holds the bottom gear on the drive shaft . The one that is allways breaking !
Found my anwser it is a 1.25 if anyone needs to know . If you are wondering why I wanted to know this Extracting the broke off bolt turned out to be a bit of a nightmare when my ez-out broke off in the bolt , so we had to drill the bolt completely out of the drive shaft and needed to figure out what tap to use to re-tap it to clean up the threads in the shaft a bit .
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I'm in the same boat...I think I got most of the easy out cleaned out...where you able to drill the bolt out while it was still on the the sled or did you have to use a drill press? Did you use heat?? I'm hoping a better easy out will do the trick as I don't want to pull the whole shaft.
Had to pull the shaft . I brought the whole axle to work and let the tooling guys have at it . I don't know exactly what they did but they ended up having to drill it out to almost the same diameter as the bolt then ran a tap into it to get the rest out/clean up the threads. The worst part is this was on a buddys sled and i thought it would be no problem beacuse when I did mine in came out so smooth I probably could have used a reverse drill bit. Hope this helps a bit and good luck.
Had to pull the shaft . I brought the whole axle to work and let the tooling guys have at it . I don't know exactly what they did but they ended up having to drill it out to almost the same diameter as the bolt then ran a tap into it to get the rest out/clean up the threads. The worst part is this was on a buddys sled and i thought it would be no problem beacuse when I did mine in came out so smooth I probably could have used a reverse drill bit. Hope this helps a bit and good luck.
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went through it last year. drilled in place, ending with undersize left hand bit. got the treads out in a spiral. I wouldn't expect tapping to work.
whatever you do, be sure to use the spacer fix as posted. been doing all makes like that since. huge design problem, with all makes
whatever you do, be sure to use the spacer fix as posted. been doing all makes like that since. huge design problem, with all makes
