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Sierra Diff cover bolts
eznfrank - 9/2/08 at 05:26 PM

Is there anything unusual about the Sierra diff cover bolts?? Like them being opposite thread or anything daft like that? Mine aint budged an inch all day!!

I'm a bit loathed to get big bar and big hammer on it just yet, especially with those stoopid star bolt thingies as I imagine it will cost many knuckles!!


piddy - 9/2/08 at 05:51 PM

They are normal thread, a pig to undo I end up cutting an edge on some and using a chisel.
An impact drive is very useful to undo them.


jacko - 9/2/08 at 06:47 PM

Give them a smack with a hammer then try again


bigrich - 9/2/08 at 07:54 PM

+1
give em a whack with the tool of the pikey then undo with a good fitting torx bit


eznfrank - 9/2/08 at 07:59 PM

Cheers fellas, I'll give it a bash (literally), i did give it a bit of a tickle earlier but was worried about cracking the alloy case, but I guess it'll be reet.

ta


minitici - 9/2/08 at 08:31 PM

Big hammer and chisel!
But there again I don't re-use the cases after I extract the LSDs


jkarran - 9/2/08 at 11:36 PM

Impact driver set to '4' resulting in loose bolts and a Dali-esque Torx bit from memory

jk


scotty g - 10/2/08 at 07:11 AM

i remember all mine were like that as well and i too was a little bit scared to whack it with the large adjuster so i just used a good quality torx bit, with my socket set and a nice long bar, it feels like its not going to go then all of a sudden you hear and feel it go then its lovely and loose.
Good luck anyways.


NS Dev - 10/2/08 at 11:05 AM

as others said, give them a good clout square on their heads with a hammer before undoing them.

if that fails, try an impact driver if you have one, or on some you can get a sillson round the head of it, and if that fails, smack them undone by tapping them round with a cold chisel