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Rear Anti-roll Bar Bolt Snapped!
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:13 pm
by M 80NGD
Good afternoon,after reading all the topics on changing the rear roll bar brackets and bushes,penertrating oil etc,etc
I managed to snap one of the bolts off

Has anybody else done this,and if so how did you repair it?

I can't
just walk into a motor factors or Mazda shrowroom,because of living in the land that time forgot!!

Thanks in advance
Lee.

Re: Rear Anti-roll Bar Bolt Snapped!
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:04 pm
by missfixit70
Put a new one in? you may have bit of fun getting the old one out, but you should be able to replace with a normal bolt.
Re: Rear Anti-roll Bar Bolt Snapped!
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:11 pm
by M 80NGD
I thought that as well Kirsty,but the bolt has a 15mm round head on it and seems to be welded to the bracket itself
I've drilled all the bolt out,but this disk thing won't shift,not even with a small bolster chisel

Should I drill through
that as well? Cheers.
Re: Rear Anti-roll Bar Bolt Snapped!
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:16 pm
by missfixit70
or grind it off?
Re: Rear Anti-roll Bar Bolt Snapped!
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:54 pm
by M 80NGD
Couldn't get the grinder in,so I've drilled through said disc,(bloody hard work!

) and replaced it with a nut and
bolt! A 20 minute job took me just under 3 hours!! Not doing anything else till We've moved back to Derbyshire in 2 weeks
time!!

Re: Rear Anti-roll Bar Bolt Snapped!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:54 am
by dandywarhol
good job Bond - all these little snippets of info help justify some of the labour rates for jobs that peeps moan about
