Fitting a white line Rear ARB so removing the original ARB mounts, the drivers side bolt decides to snap its head off, grrr, will get a pic or 2 up later.

The other mount bolt is directly under the filler neck, great design there subaru ! so looks like i need to remove the filler neck also just to remove the other mount bolt, i can see those bolts shearing off as well from inside the arch behind the fuel filler flap etc !

a 30 minute job they said ha ha !!!!

Now my options, do i try and drill the thread out, do i try and weld onto the tiny nibble that is protruding , do i drill the hole bigger and weld say a 13mm nut in there to bolt into ???

Decisions decisions

 

fit stout mounts, if its the bolt Im thinking of.

 

Stout mounts ?

Im replacing the original mounts with the whiteline replacement heavy duty mounts

cheers

 

sounds like the parts I mentioned then, they are called stout mounts.

http://perrinperformance.com/i-13324...7-wrx-sti.html

 

Im fitting the whiteline equivalents

 

 

So this thread then ?

https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-...me-advice.html

 

from your pic Id be tempted to thread a nut on as far as poss and weld inside of the nut to the snapped bolt before I start drilling/attacking from the rear etc,
the heat from the welding should also help break the rust.

 

Cheers bud , that link is exactly me at the moment !

Not sure there is enough thread to get a bolt on but will try !

I don't want to drill holes in the boot floor etc , seems excessive but if I have to and all that , huff lol

 

It has to be worth a punt if you have a Mig welder.

 

Well , I made a tapered m8 nut and got some good connection with the thread , downside is my mates mig welder is broken . Gutted . So I have In a lame attempt put chemical metal on the thread , inside the new bolt thread so maybe just maybe it will hold but very doubtful . All the others have undone ok so if chemical metal doesn't work drilling it out


Cheers

 

get a blow torch on it, get it "Red" hot, you will stand a chance , Im not sure how good that liquid bond is myself lol.

 

If I get a blow torch on it I reckon it will melt the chemical metal lol

 

Hopefully your mates welder is fixed by then lol

 

Can you not get a mobile welder or do you have a local garage that would be able to put some weld on it.

 

Centre punch it and drill it right through its length using a drill bit just smaller than the bolt then put a thread extraction bit into the hole and it should come out, on another note if its snapped the chances are its well seized in

 

In regards to the forward bolt you don't have to take the filler neck off / if you aproach it from placing your arm direction of ( trailing arm ) you can do it on your back no probs

 

cheers for the advice guys, ive got all of the 3 other bolts out, just this one, so as its the easier of the 2 on each side, im going to bite th ebullet and drill this one out.

not much choice really as no welder lol and as you say above, probably wont bite onto it anyway

 

DRilled the bugger out in the end , managed to get a bolt with a nut on the side where the castlated nut was but the new nut sits on top of the castlated nut as that remained

 

Excellent news
a nice pic would end the thread nicely

 

Here's some pics of it all fitted and the new bolt setup lol

 

Excellent