For a while now this broken bolt was preventing me from reinstalling my newly powder coated rock sliders. The bolt broke off when I removed them for painting.
Well today the bolt met its end via being drilled out...
And got turned into this...
Which freed up the hole...
And allowed me to bolt the rock sliders back on!
At one point I had to decide whether to use an easy-out, and decided against it and instead to keep on drilling. I had been hammering on the bolt and bathing it in Aerokroil for weeks, and it showed no interest in turning AT ALL. I was using vice grips on it and nothing, except rounding it off. Thus, I figured I would probably just break the easy-out in the hole and create a worse problem. I'm glad I just kept drilling it. I used cobalt reverse thread bits, and went really slowly, frequently cleaning the metal scraps off the bit and keeping it wet with oil.
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2008 Liberty Sport 4x4 Automatic
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Full MOPAR skid plates
Rock Lizard Skink Super Sliders
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