Rear hub bolt head broke.

[bhilly82]

I broke the head off the bolt that holds the cross pin in the rear wheel hub. Anyone have a idea of how to extract the bolt. I have never seen bolt extractors that small and there is no way to get vice grips inside that small hole in the wheel adapter. I tried to take a punch and push the cross pin out with no luck.

So has anone had this happen and how did you fix the problem. I didn't even tighten it down that hard.

This happened earlier in the summer and i just ran it this way all summer, but now its time to re oil the bearings or replace that one.

 

[Lan-Ed-Tul]

only thing you might do is try to drill the bolt out with drill bit, and then with a punch try tapping the cross pin out

 

[mickey]

I had the same thing happen to me on mine. I used a left hand drill bit about the same size as the bolt. Push hard on the drill and turn it slowly in reverse with the bit . It finally caught and pulled the remainder of the bolt out . Hope this helps.