i've got a stripped screw on the bottom of my mt 2 that holds the engine down. i've gotten a screw extractor......didn't work......i've tried using a chizel to knock a slit in the top of the screw for a flat head....didn't work. it turned, but the whole engine moved too. i'm out of ideas, and i dont have a dremel tool. i've been doing this for the past two hours. what should i do to get this screw out?

buy a dremel kit..probably the best bit of kit you will ever buy! they are reasonable cheap too..

i would cut a slit in the top of the screw with a dremel, hold the engine tight if it turns with the screw, maybe spray a little wd40 in there to loosen things up.

heat that sob up, not red hot, but just warm, say 200-250ish, then try to back it out.

dremel!!! one word

Alittle more indepth here

Warm the piece that the screw is in NOT the screw up to 200-250 like nascardad said than use compressed air shooting threw a THIN tube at the screw it self

Why heat expands items cold contracts ....i do this to fix stuff thats rusted or stripped all the time

JUST be carefull NOT TO OVERHEAT the car or the mounts you can ruin them

Another way get some penetrating oil puts some dabs onto it leave it overnight to soak in try again in the morning (so you dont overheat yourself)


Dremel also works in some cases as well it just depends on the situation

is the bolt loose & stripped or tight & stripped ???

can you remount the other screws to the engine and try and back the stuck one out

just a few idea's good luck getting it out

yeah, it's tight and stripped. i'll put some bolt loostener on it tonight and see what happens.

yeah will b gd idea 2 buy a dremel kit as u will never need 2 get ne other tools lol theyre amazing

A dab of valve grinding compound can help you get a better grip on the screw. If you have some around.

Instead of a dremel, why couldn't you use a drill?
Use a bit slightly larger than the shaft of the screw and drill into the middle of the head until the head is gone. Then when you get the engine out, there will be a bit of the screw sticking out...grab it with a vise grips, and twist.

I really doubt that would work. And if it did, you'd have crap still stuck in the screw hole and wouldn't be able to put another screw in there.

I've done that a few times to my bottom engine mount screws as well. A few times, my dad was able to get them out by pushing verrry hard against the screw and turning the screwdriver. Other times, I just tried over and over, different screwdrivers, and just patience. I don't have a dremel either, but have been able to get them all out.

One time... I actually overscrewed the screw in. I was using a small Craftsman cordless screwdriver to screw one back in (mistake) and it just kept going until it broke the head right off. Luckily I was able to get the rest of the screw out of the mount with pliers.

dude go to pepboy and buy one of those chinese dremels 10 bucks with bits its not a dremel, i still use it cause it fits in my tool box for when i go to the track the dremel box is huge
but get a dremel of something like that
dont try stupid ideas like drilling into your motor mount

Obviously, you guys misunderstood me. I'm not talking about drilling into the motor mount. I'm talking about using a drill bit to grind the head of the screw off. If you use a bit larger than the shaft of the screw, when you get to a point, the head of the screw will fall off. If you don't drill too far, then you will be able to grab the shaft of the screw and twist it out.
If you are careful, you won't ruin anything other than the already wrecked screw.
Maybe you doubt it will work, but I've used that method many times. I am quite a ways away from a lhs, so I re-use my screws until I destroy them.

Yeah that doesn't make any sense to me... I wouldn't try that if I were you, redfox03.

avg_joe is talking about cutting the screw head off. Once the screw head is off, the engine isn't attached anymore. Once the object is removed, a pair of needle noses can twist the screw out.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha true stick with methods were more than one person uses it, no offence avg joe but i wouldnt do that cause i have a dremel and there is a hobbypeople like 2 min away

i used the drill method. actually worked too. didn't do any damage to the chasis except a small nick, but nothing major.

damn i hate strippin screws.. it pisses ,me off soo much, and its hard to get them out if its in alot and tight, fudge stripped screws

I use it....... removing stripped and broken fasteners is an art form Every job calls for a different method, the one suggested was fine for a countersunk screw going through the chassis. You want something fun, try removing a bolt an easyout broke off in, or a broken tap, both are miserable. The other guy said try heating screw, that was not bad advice either, thread lock compound releases at temperature. At least you got it out.

I've used threadlock on my truck before (like $5 for .00005 oz bottle @ Ace Hardware) and it never seems to work for me.

No offence taken...I sometimes have a hard time translating from real world to instruction form. What I can see in my mind's eye just doesn't seem to come out on the keyboard.
We all do what we have to...It's all good, if it gets done.

the drill method works, you just have to use a fairly big bit and listen
i did it yesterday to get the motor mount off my rc10gt, heard a big ping and the thing just fell off

i have a FT Gt with full titanium VERY expensive allen key screws and i have used a dremel to slot all of them so now i just use a 3 dollar flathead.

Dann

or you could use a good set of allen drivers

[X(]Brilliant! lol