Thread: Broken Bolts
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Old 10-01-2007, 09:35 AM   #1
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Thumbs down Broken Bolts

I needed to remove the wheel to be able to pull the fender on my 92 Lesabre, as the accident had jammed the bumper setup back. Using the cool rotating made-in-canada wheel wrench, I extracted 4 of the 5 nuts without a problem....however, the 5th one was stuck solid, and in forcing it, I ended up stripping the cool wheel wrench horribly, but no luck in removal. So I go to my Sport Trac, and borrow her "wheel wrench, and manage to get the sorry nut off my car.

Problem is, the bolt and the nut decided they couldn't leave each other, so part of the nut snapped off.

How do I repair this?

(For additional fun, everything on the front of the car--rotors, calipers, wheel hubs,etc--is rusted and pitted beyond recognition, so I'll have to replace them as well....16 years is a long time for those parts....I have no record of them ever being replaced.)
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