[Shotimes] Help...I have a stuck damper bolt...

[Paul Nimz]

I'd be afraid it's loctited.  Maybe use some heat and sacrifice the damper?

Paul


On 2/23/2006 4:10:29 PM, George Fourchy (krazgeo@comcast.net) wrote:
> Hey all..
>
> I'm trying to do a front end 60K on one of the cars I had and sold to a
friend back
> in the day.  It had an engine swap prior to me getting it.  I'm
> down to the damper
> bolt....it will not come off (ratchet method) even with two batteries
> connected in
> parallel for extra amperage for the starter.  Looking at the bolt, its
> head is
> distorted a bit toward tightening....that is, it is a bit twisted, like a
> LOT of
> torque went onto it when it was last installed.  The 6-point socket goes
> on OK.  The
> engine has been in the car at least since 2000, and
> I'm supposing it has not been
> apart since its installation, perhaps not even then.
>
> I have a die grinder that can grind the bolt head and washer off so that I
can get
> the damper off, but how much chance is there that the bolt threads are bound
into
> the crank enough that I might not be able to get it out?  I'd
> hate to be stuck with
> the car with a bad crank and not be able to get it back to its owner....I
> don't feel
> like working on these things much any more.  (It took me three partial days
to do a
> strut/spring swap on another car, when 6 years ago the same