Howza Bruthas, I was trying to adjust the brakes on the Lemon Krate and low and behold, the right front bleeder is stripped and oh so round. How does one remove such a bastard?
the crapsman robogrip works pretty good....any chance of getting a small ez out into the hole on the bleeder and backing it out?? if not, dynamite should work.
Squeeze as hard as humanly possible on your vise grips. seriously. it should break off before you round it off more. otherwise replace the wheel cylinder.
Use a Dremel or something with a cylinder-shaped grinding bit on the end and grind two new sides onto it. Then pound whatever box-end wrench will fit onto it. Depending on how rusty it is it probably will break off first, but I've never actually had a bleeder totally locked up from rust. I ALWAYS use a socket first, and if there's any play in it, I get the next smallest metric size and pound that on.
I have one this battle with vise grips before as well. I also have done it by cramming a metric box end wrench on it with with a socket. I think the vibration from hitting helps in loosening it as well. A little dab of penetrating oil would help as well I am sure.
Use an "easy-out". Looks sorta like a tapered drill bit. I think Craftsman has them at Sears. They also work for getting broken bolts out. You will need to get a new bleeder after you get it out. Clark
Heat it red with a torch, then try to turn before it get coold. Hot wrenching you know ;-) Repeat if necessary.
Mister 42 nailed it. I've never had any luck removing a busted-off bleeder with an easy-out. And, I'm just dumb enough to have tried about 3 more times after loosing my first ez out when it snapped off in the bleeder..DOH! Here's where I'd slide a 5/16ths or a 3/8ths nut over the offending bleeder screw and wire-feed that mutha to the rounded off screw. Just when the red color dies off, pop a socket on the nut and turn the screw out....replace with a new one and use never-sieze on it this time...10 minute operation with almost guaranteed results.
Was thinking just bang a nut over it, weld it on and replace with a new one, then I foung Rocky had just said the same. It's a sure fire method. EZouts are a complete waste of time. Mart.
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