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Front brake dust shield removal. Rusted bolts

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How the fluck do I get to the "top \middle" bolt?

I've purchased a removal kit for rusted rounded nuts and bolts, but I'm struggling to remove the final one, because the bearing is in the way.

Any tips or tricks would be appreciated

I replaced my sons but I was also doing the bearing. The other side I managed to use a long sharp chisel to tap it free along the edge of the bolt then some long nozed vice grips. Weird thing was the one that was difficult to get was the most rusted on both sides. Luckily it wasn't seized in just rusted head so I managed to remove it. I replaced them with stainless steel bolts I got a packet from toolstation. They were allen type with a rounded head. I used a bit of heat on them with penetrating oil.

Alasdair

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I like the idea of trying to tap with a chisel. I couldn't get purchase using the grippy plumbers wrench thing, but if I can loosen it with a chisel then that could work.

The replacement screws I got from Amazon, and I deliberately went for galvanized.

Currently wrecking my brain to see if I can remember where my little creme brûlé blowtorch currently lives.

I ended up fitting a 1/4" drive bit into that screw head and maybe used a couple of screwdrivers to force/wedge it down (against the inside face of the hub) and stay down in the screw head - then used an adjustable spanner tightened as tight as possible, to rotate that 1/4" hex drive bit - that worked. That was on an August 2015 Polo, as said already, these screws are only seized in there by their heads corrosion - once that bond is broken, they are free to move and there will no rust on their threads - by the way, VW Group screws when new have a suitable coating on them to reduce corrosion build up, but like galvanising, that only works for so long especially in that nasty location.

Edited by rum4mo

Is it a torx or hex head (my father's Fabia originally had hex bolts that held dust shield to the wheel bearing housing, but when we bought 2nd hand wheel bearing housings with the wheel bearings the dust shield was held with torx bolts and I struggled to get one out on each side)?

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I hunted out a rusty old wood chisel and a few "precision whacks", it came loose.
the other side came out fine luckily but the bolt remover did the trick for the other 4.

for me they were hex head (regular "bolt" type, not allen key/torx) that were so rusted that an 8mm spanner was too big.

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