The great battle of the seat belt bolt was won.
The great battle of the seat belt bolt was won.
After trying 4 different ways of removing this annoying bolt over 3 sittings, I had to take a drill and tap to it and some still remains in the hole.
I sliced the head and hit it with a old school impact driver from the top and the bottom, cut the channel wider and stuck a piece of angle iron with a pipe wrench into it. I welded a bolt to it and the bolt sheared in the middle, not even at the weld. I hammered a socket over the bolt and that just removed material. I heated it up until the paint around it bubbled.
Finally I just used a 1/4 drill bit and went through it and then a 3/8 bit which is the largest I can go with a small chuck drill. Then a 7/16 tap with a 1/4 inch socket extension upsidedown to get the clearance to actually turn the tap.
After trying 4 different ways of removing this annoying bolt over 3 sittings, I had to take a drill and tap to it and some still remains in the hole.
I sliced the head and hit it with a old school impact driver from the top and the bottom, cut the channel wider and stuck a piece of angle iron with a pipe wrench into it. I welded a bolt to it and the bolt sheared in the middle, not even at the weld. I hammered a socket over the bolt and that just removed material. I heated it up until the paint around it bubbled.
Finally I just used a 1/4 drill bit and went through it and then a 3/8 bit which is the largest I can go with a small chuck drill. Then a 7/16 tap with a 1/4 inch socket extension upsidedown to get the clearance to actually turn the tap.
