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Broken bolt holding heat shield on the Transalp

Posted by on February 22, 2011

Had a broken bolt holding the heat shield on the Transalp:

This was broken

Sprayed it a lot with some penetrating oil and the one bolt came out but was almost stripped of all threads:

Bolt in bad condition

Freshened up the threads:

Freshened up the thread

Tried extracting the broken off bolt by soaking in penetrating oil for some time and heating and a reverse drill but it was not coming out:

Later went over to a larger reverse drill

So gave up on it for now and replaced the one bolt holding it and secured the front with an iron wire, if having the exhaust off in the future I will look more into the problem, maybe cut off the tabs and weld new on:

And secured it with some iron wire for now

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