[DeTomaso] Busted motor mount bolt help needed

[MyCars]

If there is enough room... how about cutting a notch in the bolt and
then using an impact screw driver to break it loose.

ttyl
Roydon }8-)>


On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 20:01 -0500, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I just got a call from Terry Eriksen, a project Pantera owner currently 
> living in Stockton, CA (and not a member of this forum).  His e-mail address is 
> DAlliance69 at aol.com, so please hit 'reply all' with answers to his queries, as 
> otherwise he won't see them.
> 
> While performing a 'creeper tour' of the underside of his car, he discovered 
> that one of the two bolts securing the upper motor mount to the engine block 
> on one side of the car has sheared off inside the block.  It would be nice if a 
> stub were sticking out that he could grab onto, but no such luck.
> 
> So, his question is, how does he deal with it?  By what means can he 
> successfully extract the offending bolt without actually having to remove the motor 
> from the car?
> 
> I mentioned to him the idea of EDM, which my dim recollection tells me stands 
> for Electro-Discharge Machining, and is basically a Harry Potteresque means 
> of dissolving metal you don't want, while preserving the metal that you do, but 
> I am completely unfamiliar with the mechanics, and whether it requires a bare 
> engine block to start out with, or can be accomplished with the motor in the 
> car?
> 
> Terry is an air traffic controller, and he plans to drive the car to Oklahoma 
> City to attend training out there from 12 July to 6 August (attention Okie 
> Pantera crew--dust off the red carpet accordingly!), and from there, he will be 
> driving to his new, yet-to-be-purchased home in the San Diego area where he 
> will be working at the ATC facility there (ditto to the SDP crew).
> 
> Again, please hit 'reply all' when weighing in with proposed solutions to his 
> problem.  If in fact he has to remove the engine from the car in order to get 
> it sorted, he has a pile of food and beer standing by, to offer to those 
> local (Modesto/Fresno?) Pantera guys who might feel like stopping by for a day of 
> wrenching.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
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