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How do i take out studs off turbo hotside?

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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 09:22 AM
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How do i take out studs off turbo hotside?

ive spent two days trying to take those pos's out and i cant. i tried all liquids to soften hard bolts. ive tried like 3 stud removing tools. ive broken both of them now and its just flat now with the hole. so i had to use a drill.... what a fail. the drill bits would stop working after 2 seconds. im about to go take it to a machine shop and let them handle it lol. anyone know a better way to take it off?
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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 09:31 AM
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Sounds like that's your best option at this point. Depending on how ****ed up it is they might have to drill and heli-coil or time-sert them.
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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 09:35 AM
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Take to a machine shop so you don't go crazy
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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 02:22 PM
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Yea I'm going to have to wait till monday cause the machine shop I usually go to doesn't open on sat or sun. Unless someone knows a good machine shop in Miami?
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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 02:28 PM
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The bolts will not "soften" they are hardened steel. You will not be able to drill them out with regular bits either.

Plan on $75 per bolt to remove them.
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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 05:40 PM
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Call Mitchell's Machine shop, ask for "John" he's the owner, it's not gonna be $75 per bolt, not even close. How many bolts? He'd probably take em all out for around $30 - $50 depending on how bad you fuggd them up.

Michell's Machine Shop: 305-235-7205
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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 05:45 PM
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ok ill give him a call tomorow morning. thanks
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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 06:07 PM
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^ Tomorrow is sunday.....
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Old Oct 24, 2009 | 06:26 PM
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lol ok monday
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Old Apr 12, 2010 | 08:11 PM
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yea if any bolt or stud gets that bad or stuck a machine shop is your best bet unless you want to risk serious or irreverisable damage
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Old Apr 12, 2010 | 08:33 PM
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LOL I just went through the same thing. No way in hell this crap was getting drilled out. We torched it and drilled it. In the end I pulled out the whole turbo housing and brought it to this Cuban guy on 441 & Miramar Parkway. $50 a bolt and 45 minutes later I had it back.

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Old Apr 13, 2010 | 04:19 AM
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I did it the old fashioned way. Lol I probably broke like 20 drill bits. Took me like 3 days.
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Old Apr 23, 2010 | 02:02 PM
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I did it the old fashioned way. Lol I probably broke like 20 drill bits. Took me like 3 days.

I am humbled by your persistence dude, That's better than my 8 hours trying to get the banjo bolt on my SS clutch line started.
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Old Apr 27, 2010 | 06:47 PM
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^ i hear that haha
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Old Apr 27, 2010 | 07:19 PM
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mines at the machine shop right now they called and said " regular drill bits were not doing anything, we had to use our cobalt ones . after a little while we had to resharpen them. the steel is so hard its rediculas." LMFAO i tryed to do it myself i was getting so fricken mad wow
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