{"id":5023,"date":"2020-07-23T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2020-07-23T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T10:00:03","slug":"rounded-off-bolt-removed-via-welding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/23\/rounded-off-bolt-removed-via-welding\/","title":{"rendered":"Rounded-Off Bolt Removed Via Welding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a car from the early 2000&#8217;s, and here in New York, that means it&#8217;s very rusty. I was replacing parking brake cables, and found that they ran above one of the exhaust heat shields. To remove that heat shield, I needed to remove a bolt, and so far I&#8217;d been pretty lucky with bolts coming out, but my luck ran out and I just rounded off the head of the bolt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5019\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020_07_23_01.jpg\" alt=\"2020_07_23_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After trying to use sockets designed to remove rounded off bolts with no success, the tech next to me suggested welding a nut onto the rounded off bolt to give a good place for the socket to grip.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5020\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2020_07_23_02.jpg\" alt=\"2020_07_23_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It only took a quick minute for him to weld it on, and with it still hot from the welding, I was able to remove the bolt with no problems. Even with the head of the rounded off bolt being rusty, for something like this it didn&#8217;t matter too much how clean the metal was.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCasCW0ImD3UuLeMu5RAZCXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Mechanical Malarkey on YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a car from the early 2000&#8217;s, and here in New York, that means it&#8217;s very rusty. I was replacing parking brake cables, and found that they ran above one of the exhaust heat shields. To remove that heat shield, I needed to remove a bolt, and so far I&#8217;d been pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-rust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}