Downpipe Removal Failure!!

[CupraDaveG]

So i wanted to get my Milltek system fitted today, and i get to the last nut of the downpipe, and it wont budge!!

I sprayed it with WD-40 and left it for an hour or so.... And still, it wont budge.

The other 3 came off with ease.

I heated the last nut up with a blow torch and it finally came unstuck, but i think its cross threaded, as now its is turning on the spot and wont come undone. So the nut or/and thread seem to be nackered and i cant get it off.

Any suggestions?

 

[DPJ]

You'll have to cut the nut off.

 

[CupraDaveG]

Hmm, with the amount of space under there, is that even possible?

What about damaging the thread?

 

[andycupra]

if its spinning the thread is already knackered isnt it?
i would have put the 3 other buts back on before getting aggressive with the 4th to make sure it was all aligned correctly and there wasnt any force applied to the bolt head.
Is it possible you have broken the bolt?

 

[CupraDaveG]

Well i dont know if its the thread on the bolt, or the nuts thread has given in.

Id like to get it off and hope the bolt is still ok for a replacement nut.

But its just spinning at the last bit

So pissed!

 

[SalSheikh]

bugger mate, feel for you. i sprayed wd40 all week before attempting to remove the nuts on my car.

 

[CupraDaveG]

Cant belive it, the other 3 were easy to remove.

No idea what to do now though

 

[SalSheikh]

its deffo not coming off?

 

[SalSheikh]

fingers crossed it will come off and u dont have any issues mate.

 

[CupraDaveG]

Nope, its just turning on the thread. its so close too...

Good job i dont have a REVO stage 1 booked in tommorow morning...

OH WAIT! I DO!!

 

[JPS1]

Can you get a hammer & chisel up there and split the nut?

 

[sambryant]

what about a nut splitter

 

[SalSheikh]

Can you get a hammer & chisel up there and split the nut?

you might ruin the thread on the bolt....be careful

would be useful if u had one of them eletric handsaws, something like this: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produ...den+and+DIY|14418702/Trail/searchtext>SAW.htm

can u get and angle grinder on it or a dremel on it?

 

[DPJ]

No room for a nut splitter on most of them. Dremel is the way forward.

 

[Mo Arif]

Dremel

 

[CupraDaveG]

Down to argos i go then!

they have a dremel kit half price. Hope it comes with the accessory to cut the nut!

thanks for all your help guys!

 

[Pyro]

Have you tried getting something to leaver it down then unscrew in basically push it onto the thread that's what I've done a mlion times at work well my last job used a trim tool on the it

 

[CupraDaveG]

Ive tried. Its so difficult as theres no space for a Ratchet or spanner etc.

Ill give it a go again in the morning, if i dont succeed ill go get a dremel from Argos.

Hopefully i can get the system on before 12.

 

[wayne lcr]

just get a drem and cut it off if you dont get the little cutting disk go to screw fix or some were like that.

 

[CupraDaveG]

Ill try, my car is the only means of transport. And it has no cat back!!