Screw break off

>mfw it worked

mfw

When i did my clutch i just screwed that lisle pilot remover u use with a grease gun and tightened it real tight than put a wrench behind it and hammered it out. No mess at all.

>brake job on Mercedes
>Get to the retaining screw on the rotor
>Okay I seen people strip this before gotta be rea- AND ITS STRIPPED.
>try easy out. Nope.
>drill all the way through and shove the smallest hex key I've got.
>it's out
>barely missed the threads.
>go find a replacement, only one place has it and gotta wait 2 hours for it to be ordered.
>wat.jpg
>part arrives and proceed with beating the rotor with a metal hammer.
>Itsoff.png
>rust...rust everywhere.
>scotchbrite that bitch.
>Anti seize, reinstall, put new pads. Done.

Turns out the reason I stripped the screw was because I for some stupid reason kept tighting instead of loosening. Oh well. now I know better.

When those screws fuck up I just leave them off.
Theyre just from the factory assembly line so the rotors dont move.

Why not a real live chicken?

It's very easy to make sure those screws don't fuck up. Without those screws it's more of a pain in the ass to bolt the wheel on to the hub, unless you use a rod/stud tool.

for me the single defining reason i dont work on my own cars is because

siezed bolts

rusted bolts

snapping heads off bolts

if i get into any of these situations i dont really have the resorces or time to tackle somthing that involved myself

that being said there is a reason why i buy newer or rust free cars whenever i can

>Lug bolts

found the problem

Because smacking someone with a live chicken is not as satisfying.

what the absolute fuck

>mfw tried bread and grease with no luck
>wound up spraying it with ac refrigerant and chiseling it

Grease works too. Basically anything incompressible that is viscous enough not to run out of hole.

Tape works (around a bar). But I just turned a scrap piece of steel about .005" less than the bearing and one good tap popped it right out.