Help !! Sheared off bolt

keithclancy

Was changing the rear wheel hub as the bearings were knackered.

Got to the last one and it sheared off !!

I could remove it from the wrong and I can see a fair bit of it sticking out.

I'm thinking of sticking on two bolts at the end of it and turning it off from the side shown in the picture.

Any ideas ?

Do you think this would work .. or will I have to go get an arc welder and weld a bolt on ?

Pics attached.

Slidey

That bolt sheared off as you were taking it out?

If it was the last one the hub should come out now if I am reading the picture right.

If you have an arc welder you could tap a nut on over the remaining section of the bolt and weld it to it. The heat may travel through the bolt and free it enough that it will come out.

If that fails you may have to cut it off and drill and tap it for a new bolt

no1beemerfan

I too am presuming you can take the hub off which should give you room to work at it. There is pleanty left to get it out. I'd try the two bolts first but if the original sheared its probably well stuck. Other than that you have pleanty left to weld something to it.

crosstownk

You could use a stud extractor.....? Tedious but it will do the job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7vK3d3l7M

Slidey

If the original broke chances are that one won't come out without some sort me different help

What make of vehicle is it?

CJhaughey

If you give the hub a good tap with a large hammer from the side it should come free from the axle, once thats out of the way access should be a lot easier.
I wouldn't use an easy out on that, if you break the easy out off in the bolt it is very very difficult to continue easily.
If you can stick two nuts together on that thread and heat the area with a Mapp torch or similar then you might get away with it but there doesn't look to be a lot of thread left.
I would weld an old nut on, heat the fecker red hot and try and back it out.
Drilling it would be a last resort but if nothing else works...
Fine thread on that by the looks of it as well.

Nissan doctor

I'd say remove the hub, put it in a vice if you have the use of one, then heat the hub around the bolt red hot, don't heat the bolt itself as then it will just expand into the hole. Once the hub is red hot I recon you'd get that out with a vise grips.

keithclancy

Success !!

Hammered the wheel hub out, luckily it snapped just where it meets the wheel carrier and the carrier isnt threaded.

I'm replacing the whole wheel hub anyway as the bearings are non serviceable.

Aww ... the joy i felt when it popped off ... few skint knuckles and lots of ffs.

Cheers for the suggestions

Its a 2.0D Volvo V50 btw ... whoever designed the thing was a lunatic, you have to remove the fuel pump when changing the oil filter and then you have to bleed the fuel system afterward .. no damn primer builtin.