Heya Techies-Removing a stripped brake bleeder-Any Ideas??

[Spooky]

Howza Bruthas,
I was trying to adjust the brakes on the Lemon Krate and low and behold, the right front bleeder is stripped and oh so round. How does one remove such a bastard?

[Muttley]

Vice-Grips? http://mc.clintock.com/basement/tool_area/ICON-images/vice-grips.jpg http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Spooky]

Man I tried. It just continued to be turned into a smoothe surfaced piece. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[kritz]

the crapsman robogrip works pretty good....any chance of getting a small ez out into the hole on the bleeder and backing it out?? if not, dynamite should work.

[kyle paul]

buy a new wheel cylinder, or pull it off and lock ot n the vice

[fordiac]

Squeeze as hard as humanly possible on your vise grips. seriously. it should break off before you round it off more.

otherwise replace the wheel cylinder.

[Machinos]

Use a Dremel or something with a cylinder-shaped grinding bit on the end and grind two new sides onto it. Then pound whatever box-end wrench will fit onto it. Depending on how rusty it is it probably will break off first, but I've never actually had a bleeder totally locked up from rust. I ALWAYS use a socket first, and if there's any play in it, I get the next smallest metric size and pound that on.

[candyman]

I have one this battle with vise grips before as well. I also have done it by cramming a metric box end wrench on it with with a socket. I think the vibration from hitting helps in loosening it as well. A little dab of penetrating oil would help as well I am sure.

[Gr8ballsofir]

EZ Out.

Use an "easy-out". Looks sorta like a tapered drill bit. I think Craftsman has them at Sears. They also work for getting broken bolts out. You will need to get a new bleeder after you get it out.
Clark

Great Balls types faster than I do.
Clark

[Mr 42]

Heat it red with a torch, then try to turn before it get coold. Hot wrenching you know ;-)
Repeat if necessary.

[Rocky]

Mister 42 nailed it. I've never had any luck removing a busted-off bleeder with an easy-out. And, I'm just dumb enough to have tried about 3 more times after loosing my first ez out when it snapped off in the bleeder..DOH!
Here's where I'd slide a 5/16ths or a 3/8ths nut over the offending bleeder screw and wire-feed that mutha to the rounded off screw. Just when the red color dies off, pop a socket on the nut and turn the screw out....replace with a new one and use never-sieze on it this time...10 minute operation with almost guaranteed results.

[Mart]

Was thinking just bang a nut over it, weld it on and replace with a new one, then I foung Rocky had just said the same. It's a sure fire method. EZouts are a complete waste of time.
Mart.