On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:32:26PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Dudes, > I was doing the front brakes on my brother-in-law's scirocco, and I > broke the retaining screw holding the disk to the hub... > Miraculously, the hardware store was still open at 7:30 on a friday, so I > went and bought an easy out screw extractor. Unfortunately, I snapped > the tip of the screw extractor off IN the screw. Now I'm stuck with a > piece of hardened tool steel down in a hole in the screw. If I try to drill > into the screw to use the next size up screw extractor, the F@#$ING > thing is too hard and I trash my drill bit. > I chisled off the head of the screw so I could remove the disk, but now > I want to get the little nub out of my hub so I can put a new rotor + screw > on. I know the screw is sort of redundant, but I hate doing this half- > assed. There's no way to grab the screw with vice grips at this point > Is there another way to get the screw out?
Aside from pulling the piece off that the screw/extractor are stuck in off and taking it to a machine shop, I don't think so. My understanding is that the screw is just there to hold the rotor on while you position the wheel. I'd just ignore it. Laters, Brian 1989 Jetta GLI 16v Wolfsburg
