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Old 10-18-2015 | 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by krokodyl
Yeah there hex. You have to really watch out because they are thread locked and i stripped all 4. I had to use a dremel and then a flat screw driver. It took a long time.
sometimes when you strip a hex screw, you can get lucky and a torx bit of the right size will still grip. I had a 10mm hex bolt on the transmission of my car and it stripped (that's what I get for not changing the fluid in 80k miles) and all other methods didn't work. Then I grabbed a couple of torx bits and sure enough one of them fit and grabbed the few points remaining in the bolt.

There are also "easy out" bits...cost a few bucks but will save lots of time.

Ive never bothered, but I would think hitting the screws with PB blast before trying to remove them would help lesson the chance of them stripping.