Yes i know, there are so many more things you can do before you round off a nut ! anyway i have rounded off the nut on a mates scoob and feel responsible now. It is the on underneath by the steering arm/UJ. We have had heat on it, tried with a 14mm 6-point wall drive, didn't move it, tried with a 12 piont ringer and it chewed it up and rounded it off !

How can i get this nut off now ? Not enough room to hammer a 13mm or 12mm socket on, so now i am stuck !

Any ideas ?

 

Did you try spraying it with lots and lots of wd40 (or simular)?

Is the engine hot or cold? (I always find warm good).

 

wind another nut on and weld it to either the stud or the other nut and remove the stud or both nuts together... Have had to do this myself too..

Feel very sorry for you...

And dont get in the way when welding it..

 

Someone has just told me i can use a nut spilter ?

 

rather you than me.. never used one.. but doubt youve got the room for one...

David

 

If you use Welder for gods sake unplug Battery or it gets expensive

 

Had similar problem on the up-pipe, but the engine was out so not sure if it will work, but hack-saw parallel with the bolt, up against the threads, keep cutting until you removed part of the nut (about a third of its area) then with hammer and chisel/punch a quick blow to the remaining nut opens it up enough to unwind with your fingers!

Don`t konw if you can insitu, but worked a treat for me on two nuts!

 

same happened to me ended up using hand held dremel. small cuts on each side to remeove nut once nut off used a dia to tidy up thread again . think they were 10mm coarse thread on mine . by the way it took me two hours to do it .

 

You sure you can't hammer a smaller socket onto the nut? perhaps on the end of an extension bar???

 

I've used a nut splitter but not in such a confined space on the downpipe. They're bit fiddly to use and although it did split the nut it didn't just fall off after being split. I still spent ages actually getting the nut off after that.

 

drill the bolt out work your way up from a small drill from the centre of the bolt then eventually the nut willl fall off

 

Just how do you propose getting the drill in such a confined space, and the studs are about 1 1/2" long

 

LOL..

David

 

Got this same problem I hate subaru's

 

I hate working on friends' cars for this reason, no better way to screw up an easy job.

Can you get a dremel up there? Grind a slot in the nut if you can then chisel the **** out of it. Probably will need a new stud.

 

Use some iriwn bolt extractors?

 

There are loads of great ideas to get nuts off but the issue here is the location. You have literally no room up there its a nightmare. I had the same problem recently and I cut the nut with a dremel until I got bored and then used an air chisel which spun the nut free with ease... It did ruin the stud tho. And that then wouldn't come out... so I had to remove the turbo and weld onto the stud to remove it.

 

As above very handy tools

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/pr...-bolt-grip-set

 

Remove the section from centerpipe to turbo back the hanger is a pig to unhook and all the heatsheild nuts cause migrains buts its easier to fix off the car my nuts looked more like welds

 

I also would go with removal of dp. It is much easier to sort this out off the car.

 

+1.SJ.