Re: Water Pump woes, nearing end of tear down.

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

If you are really good (and lucky?) you MIGHT be able to remove it 
with a right angle drill. I would probably not even try it, instead it 
is probably the better way to remove the rear facia even though you 
have ground effects and it is a bigger job then usual. It is going to 
be very hard to drill that bolt out centered and straight with a right 
angle drill. It is hard even when you can get at it straight! The only 
other possability is to use heat and then try to turn the bolt but you 
said you messed it up so you can't do that. A more exotic method of 
removal which I never used to remove a steel bolt from aluminum is to 
place a nut and a washer over the broken bolt and then weld the broken 
bolt to the nut. The heat from welding loosens up the bolt and now you 
have a really good way to put a wrench on it. Of course you need room 
to do this and see what you are doing so you would still probably have 
to remove the rear facsia anyway. Hey, if was easy everybody would be 
working on their Deloreans! You have all winter so look at the bright 
side.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "James LaLonde" <deloreandmcxii@xxxx> wrote:
> All went well on my water pump removal save one tiny thing.
> The bottom mounting bolt broke!.. The pump is off, but only about 
> 1/8 - 1/4 inch of thread is sticking out of the mounting nub (nub?) 
> on the head.. and that little bit already rounded off from my vice 
> grips.
> I can't get a drill in there (even with no muffler in the way.. non-
> stock exhaust) to tap it, and I've tried even seeing if I could turn