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Old 11-12-2018, 09:20 PM   #5
cerial
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Re: Removing 31 year old hub cap bolts.

Yea my 2 remaining bed bolts(rest were rusted through) came off via a hole saw slightly larger then the bolt head.

Using the same tactic here and after thinking about it will just take a drill bit and drill down the 9/64 allen with a slightly larger bit using the allen hole to center it till the head spins.
Then should be able to just pop the cap off to get to that inner and outer snap ring and hopefully will be able to tack a nut on the remaining bolt to turn it and save the hubs.

As long as the bit is bigger then the Allen bit smaller then the diameter of the head I should be good. Little wiggle room there but not much.

Just dropped $600+ into the breaks/lines/hardware//bearing parts. Half of which is still in the boxes. If I need to spend $200 on hubs I will. But would like to try and remove these bolts and keep these good working hubs working.

Will get a hardware kit and some new hubs. If I am lucky all I will need is the hardware kit for the new bolts.

Thank you for the help
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