Date:         Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:10:42 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: Steering Column bolts again
Comments: To: "Elkavitch, Michael and Diana" <elks@TOP.MONAD.NET>
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At 05:59 PM 2/26/2000 , Elkavitch, Michael and Diana wrote:
>Bentley manual, you'll see that the bolts there have the knurled heads that
>can be grasped by vice grips and turned. Mine however, look like volcanoes!
>like cones! I see no way to grasp them and I have tried to drill the

In Bentley they show them to you *before* you twist the heads off.  What's
left afterward is just what you describe.  They *meant* them to be
impossible to remove -- but with a clean, sharp-edged visegrips you can
grab the extreme bottom (maybe by going in vertically, i.e. gripping off
the end of the jaws instead of the size) and start them out.  Most of the
time, anyway.

Re the drilling -- some combination of sharper drill, higher-grade drill,
slower speed - maybe much slower, more lubricant.

david
David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"