This one was from PA - wheel bearing needs replacing. Hopefully Kroil will make bolt removal easy so I don't need a ball joint (if the blue wrench is needed). The shop said maybe just leave it since all I did was twist the head off. I may and worry about it when I need a ball joint. Not sure what a Subaru knuckle costs - will check! -----Original Message----- From: SteveB <mguzzir...@gmail.com> Sender: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:46:03 To: Mercedes Discussion List<mercedes@okiebenz.com> Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] sheared off bolt in knuckle
I did the exact same thing on My 2003 Outback about 3 weeks ago but I did not use the impact, I did it with the breaker bar. The car is from Chicago so I attributed it to corrosion and low grade asian materials. I drilled and tapped and replaced the bolt. Were you R & R'ing the CV? Steve On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:37 PM, brian toscano <brian.tosc...@gmail.com>wrote: > I was removing the bolt in the bottom of my Subaru steering knuckle this > evening with an impact wrench and it sheared off the bolt head. This setup > is somewhat similar to the way a Mercedes ball joint stud is secured in the > bottom of a 124/201 knuckle. It make me wonder if I was wrong to use air > power on it? I noticed it didn't come off with my 3/8" ratchet so I just > went with air since it was out for the strut bolts and 32 mm axle nut. Now > I'll aim to remove the ball joint nut and take the knuckle to the machine > shop with the ball joint installed. From a pure utilitarian point of view > I > guess I don't have to have that repaired until the ball joint gets > replaced, > but that seems overly sloppy work, so I figure I can have the machine shop > do what's necessary to get that bolt out and put a new one in. I'm > considering doing it myself. I already applied Kroil so maybe an EZ-out > will do the job? > > > Brian > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
