Managed to snap off the bolt heads on my rear caliper carrier. the m14 spline ones, and im at a lost on how to get off the caliper carrier now. Any tips would be highly apreciated

It depends on how accessible the bolt heads are.

 

Drilling, heat application and welding a nut on are all possibilities but since you are asking here I doubt they're an option for you.

 

Can you take a photo to show the problem?

You can just knock the carrier off with a mallet, it might take you a good 10mins of hammering. The bolts are only threaded at the last half inch so it's smooth through the carrier bolt hole. 

 

This happened to me, first I used heat on one bolt and the head sheared right off using breaker bar so I cut the head off the other bolt with a Dremel and using a mallet I knocked the carrier right off but it did take a lot of hammering.

 

It also depends how cleanly you snapped the heads off you may need to use a Dremel to cut any head left on.

 

The holes where the bolt goes through can rust inside almost welding the bolt in also, hence it may need some serious hammering to knock the carrier off.

 

You hammer from the inside out.

Edited 21 March, 20215 yr by Aj77

26 minutes ago, MicMac said:

It depends on how accessible the bolt heads are.

 

Drilling, heat application and welding a nut on are all possibilities but since you are asking here I doubt they're an option for you.

 

Can you take a photo to show the problem?

Not accessible at all, but was thinking about welding a nut on at the end and screw the bolts out the "wrong" way since ive gotten the brake disc off

20 minutes ago, Aj77 said:

You can just knock them off with a mallet, it might take you a good 10mins of hammering. The bolts are only threaded at the last half inch so it's smooth through the carrier bolt hole. 

 

This happened to me, first I used heat on one bolt and the head sheared right off using breaker bar so I cut the head off the other bolt with a Dremel and using a mallet I knocked the carrier right off but it did take a lot of hammering.

 

It also depends how cleanly you snapped the heads off you may need to use a Dremel to cut any head left on.

 

The holes where the bolt goes through can rust inside almost welding the bolt in also, hence it may need some serious hammering to knock the carrier off.

Was actually planning on doing it that way, but cant seem to find a good way to hammer and get any momentum

1 hour ago, Toppen said:

Was actually planning on doing it that way, but cant seem to find a good way to hammer and get any momentum

 

Yep it's tight but you should be able to do it. Try at a slight angle.

4 hours ago, Aj77 said:

 

Yep it's tight but you should be able to do it. Try at a slight angle.

Ended up just removing the entire hub, and then go bananas with a hammer, couldnt get nowhere near enough force from below. Funny part was that the bolts came loose from the caliper carrier without the need of tools, so it was just the no treaded part in the hub that was glued/welded

8 hours ago, Toppen said:

Ended up just removing the entire hub, and then go bananas with a hammer, couldnt get nowhere near enough force from below. Funny part was that the bolts came loose from the caliper carrier without the need of tools, so it was just the no treaded part in the hub that was glued/welded

 

Did you get it off?

2 minutes ago, Aj77 said:

 

Did you get it off?

Yeah I got it off, but had to remove the entire hub and apply alot of force with a 5lbs hammer before it startet to loose