Snapped bleeder screw
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Any tips how to tackle this?
Never really had much luck with easy-outs as if they snap you’re doomed.
Also don’t want to heat as it’ll ruin the painted caliper.
And I don’t want to replace the caliper as they’re not cheap haha any help please
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Never really had much luck with easy-outs as if they snap you’re doomed.
Also don’t want to heat as it’ll ruin the painted caliper.
And I don’t want to replace the caliper as they’re not cheap haha any help please
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Unless you're certain you can get it out and have the kit to do so, on something expensive like that, I'd recommend removing the caliper and getting someone to do it for you.
Mounted on jig in a drill press and able to drill it out perfectly central and square, you stand a massively better chance of a neat job that doesn't do further damage.
The danger of trying and failing is you can make it a pig of a job for the next person you pass it to.
Mounted on jig in a drill press and able to drill it out perfectly central and square, you stand a massively better chance of a neat job that doesn't do further damage.
The danger of trying and failing is you can make it a pig of a job for the next person you pass it to.
Newarch said:
Caliper off, take to engineering firm. Doesn’t need to be anywhere flash, an AM will be the cheapest vehicle they’ll be working on if it’s anything like my local place.
100% this.I’d give it a bash if I could get a replacement caliper for £50 all day long.
On that Aston, where a caliper is £500+, I’d be sending it straight to an engineering firm to do.
InitialDave said:
Unless you're certain you can get it out and have the kit to do so, on something expensive like that, I'd recommend removing the caliper and getting someone to do it for you.
Mounted on jig in a drill press and able to drill it out perfectly central and square, you stand a massively better chance of a neat job that doesn't do further damage.
The danger of trying and failing is you can make it a pig of a job for the next person you pass it to.
An often overlooked factor... You can quite quickly get to the point where the operation that now needs to be done would cost an order of magnitude or two more than if you had taken it to an engineering firm in the first place. Mounted on jig in a drill press and able to drill it out perfectly central and square, you stand a massively better chance of a neat job that doesn't do further damage.
The danger of trying and failing is you can make it a pig of a job for the next person you pass it to.
105.4 said:
Newarch said:
Caliper off, take to engineering firm. Doesn’t need to be anywhere flash, an AM will be the cheapest vehicle they’ll be working on if it’s anything like my local place.
100% this.I’d give it a bash if I could get a replacement caliper for £50 all day long.
On that Aston, where a caliper is £500+, I’d be sending it straight to an engineering firm to do.
105.4 said:
100% this.
I’d give it a bash if I could get a replacement caliper for £50 all day long.
On that Aston, where a caliper is £500+, I’d be sending it straight to an engineering firm to do.
Me too.I’d give it a bash if I could get a replacement caliper for £50 all day long.
On that Aston, where a caliper is £500+, I’d be sending it straight to an engineering firm to do.
If I didn't care about the finish I'd probably skip the LH drill and easy outs due to the breakaway torque already exceeding the sheer strength of the nipple, so my first step would be to cut a slot to get a chunky flat screwdriver in, and if that didn't work I'd use a drift and hammer against the slot.
However... Cutting the slot will inevitably involve a slip or two that damages the caliper finish, and attempts to turn with screwdriver or drift will also do that.
Bobton125 said:
Thanks all
I’ve gave it a soak with wd40 and a small tap with a hammer and punch. No movement so will give up and take to a pro as suggested. Very upset about that as I try to do everything myself but the first time I’ve ever had a nipple break on me :’(
Don't sweat it. For the record, either Plusgas or PB Blaster are far superior to WD40 for these situations with seized threads.I’ve gave it a soak with wd40 and a small tap with a hammer and punch. No movement so will give up and take to a pro as suggested. Very upset about that as I try to do everything myself but the first time I’ve ever had a nipple break on me :’(
But there's nothing wrong with farming out a job like this to people with the kit to do the job right.
donkmeister said:
Bobton125 said:
Yes! And of all vehicle the Aston haha why couldn’t it be my daily shed
Let us know how it pans out - I'm genuinely interested in how engineering firms are with small one-off jobs like this. donkmeister said:
Let us know how it pans out - I'm genuinely interested in how engineering firms are with small one-off jobs like this.
There’s a good one near me who does mainly railways and large construction plant stuff.He ported out a throttle body for me a few years back for a very reasonable figure, (I can’t remember how much now).
The only negative was having to wait a couple of weeks for him to do it, but I did tell him I wasn’t in a rush.
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