#1 rule of working on cars.
Never EVER rush to do ANYTHING.

#2 rule of working on cars.
If a bolt is going in hard, don't keep going. Chances are, it'll strip, cross-thread, or break.

#3 rule of working on cars.
Keep your bolts/nuts/tools organized. Know where they go, and make mental notes. Otherwise, a paint pen does wonders.

Oh well. Live and learn. Hope you get it sorted out.

i just tried drilling the hole today with a extractor from car quest and for some reason its not going in in. i tried forward and reverse and i had the drill at high speed for like 30 seconds and it only barly scracted the surface. What am i doing wrong?

Please tell me that you're not drilling WITH the extractor, as you typed....

That's what you're doing wrong, if so.

oh so u have to drill with a diffrent bit and then use the extractor? I already tried that too but it wasnt that sharp of a bit so ill try again tommorow.

make sure u have one hell of a sharp tough bit. and make sure its not too big or u will just drill a huge hole. dont drill int othe manifold threads and make sure ur going in dead center on the screw. and prey to god its not a hard ass screw.lol

my first experience with a broken bolt was on small block chevy in my 73 Jimmy. I was screwin around with my girlfriend and acting like the truck wouldnt start so I was hitting the starter then turning the key of real fast. I snapped a grade 8 bolt off the starter leaving threads in the block. Well, of course I was a complete noob at it and so I tried drilling it out, and the drill kept slipping off and pretty soon I had the block so chewed up there was no way the thing was coming out.


fortunately, I got a great head for engineering, (just no mechanical ability or expereince back then) and I devised a steel plate that would bolt to the starter in the stock location and allow me to put a bolt to the block in another location (the starter had two bolt holes, the block had 3 for some different application)

Since then Ive never really had much more luck with drilling out bolt bits...if they dont come right out I usually find they arent gonna. Anyway, worst case scenario is you gonna need a new upper manifold.

Cobalt bits are good just don't run it too high speed or you will ruin the temper. Just go nice and slow and get it deep enough for the easy out to have a good bite. If that breaks then you are really screwed.
High speed bits are crap.

get reverse bits. there's always the chance with these that the broken bolt will come out while you're drilling.

^^ yeah I agree with him!

i just tried again today and i f**ked up and didnt do it dead center. so i didnt take any chances and took the part off and took it to peppers and they did it for $20. when i started putting the part back on i was tigting another bolt and it snaped. So im just having a ring of bad luck right now. im ganna take the car to peppers tommorow and tell them i got another bolt for them. This one is in to hard of a spot for me to even attempt myself so ill just spend another $20. F**k.