I have a turbo with broken bolt on the intake side of the primary turbo. Is it a easy fix? dose any one know anyone that can fix it? I was thinking about pulling the face of the turbo and replacing the bolt. Will there be problems with doing this? pictures of broken bolt are below. please give me some feed back on my options!

 

It is a broken stud really no biggy. You buy a new stud from Mazda Ray Crowe is top in this you can shoot him an email @ hmkparts@aol.com.

Then with something like locking pliers, Irwin brand makes the best You lock onto the stud and remove it by twisting it off counter clockwise as you would the bolt head.

After with the new stud you place the bold head on it and screw it back in. If you have a tap and die set you could also clean out the threads which is something I think that most people would recommend.

Good luck./

 

Like he says, vise grips should do it. soak with penetrating oil overnight first. If it breaks off flush with the casting or so there is not enough to grab, grind the end of the stud flat, then get a proper size brand name, like vermont-american or something, no chinese stuff ez-out (screw extractor). centerpunch and drill into the end of the stud on a drill press and turn it out with the screw extractor. if the stud won't come out or it looks like the screw extractor might break, drill it out for the next bigger screw extractor and try again. if that doesn't look like it will work, drill to just under the size used to tap that size hole and see if you can peel the thread out with an awl, or re tap the hole, withdrawing the tap every 2 turns to see if you can get any stud bits out. Its important to make sure you drill the exact center of the stud from the beginning because if it gets this far and you have to re tap, you don't want to be off center. If off center then you'll have to have someone redrill the hole with a spotting drill or an end mill. Hopefully it won't get that far

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"If it snaps flush", another option, I personally favor. Takes time and a steady hand, take a fine bit dremel and carve a nice, deep WEDGED flat line in the chunk stuck... and then grab yourself a nice big flat head screw driver and bring the bad boy out. Hopefully it will not snap flush though. Goodluck

 

If it broke off flush you can drill it and use an easy out or drill it centered with the tap size drill and pick out the remaining metal and clean it with a tap .The correct drill size is a number 7 . The tap is 6mm pitch of.1 .

 

If it does not move with the vise grips after soaking it with the penetrating oil I would heat it a bit with a small torch - remove with the vise grips while hot.

 

Or weld a small wrench to the stud and remove as necessary.