Removing rounded/damaged nuts

[kirill]

Can anyone please help with this issue...

Need to remove the handlebar risers on my Triumph Bonneville T100 (to install clip-ons) but the yoke nuts are damaged and standard socket wouldn't work.

Tried using special bolt extractor sockets (Irwin Tools BOLT-GRIP Extractor Expansion Set) but no luck either. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[fast4d]

you can't hold the nut with vise grip and loosen the bolt?

 

[kirill]

No there is no way to loosen the bolt on the other side, it's too deep inside the clamp (if I understood correctly what you suggest)

you can't hold the nut with vise grip and loosen the bolt?

 

[Junkie]

Pull the triple clamp, put it back on upside down to hold it, use visegrips

 

[MapleRoad]

Whatever mechanical method you use, put some penetrating oil on there. Looks like there is a significant amount of corrosion there, increasing the effort you'll need to free that nut. Liquid Wrench still seems to be the king, according to The Internet Authority on All Things (YouTube)

 

[augustiron]

Vice grips on the nut and spin the riser.

 

[bpw]

Probably worth taking off the triple if vice-grips and oil doesn't work so you don't damage anything.

Once the triple is off try alternating heat (torch) and cold (from an air duster can held upside down) with generous oil soaking for several days.

Or, grind the nut off.

 

[HeatXfer]

Forget the heat, forget the vice-grips: do it right with a Dremel or nut-splitter:

1) Get new bolts and nuts
2) Cut nut vertically with Dremel and/or

3) Split nut with cold chisel or Nut Splitting tool

4) 'Yer done

 

[2 Wheel Wanderer]

These are great sockets to have around, they've never failed me

 

[mototireguy]

Forget the heat, forget the vice-grips: do it right with a Dremel or nut-splitter:

1) Get new bolts and nuts
2) Cut nut vertically with Dremel and/or

+1 Dremel and nut-b-gone.

 

[Slow Goat]

You’ve got limited space to work on the nut.

Either pull the triple and attack it was th the methods suggested OR put a vice-grip on the nut and turn the clamp with a pair of channel-lock pliers (wrap the clamp with a leather scrap).

Copious amounts of liquid wrench/penetrating fluid on the bolt from top and bottom. Leave overnight.

 

[planegray]

Being the short tempered animal that I am, I would probably center punch the bolt head and drill it off

 

[motomania2007]

1) stop using 12 point box end wrenches and sockets. 12 point tools only grip the 6 corners of the fastener and round off the 6 corners.
2) stop using open end wrenches on tight fasteners. Open end wrenches can spread open a little and round off the corners of the fasteners.
3) use 6 point sockets and box end wrenches as 6 point tools grip all 6 faces of the fastener, instead of just the corners.
4) now that you have rounded off the corners you have lots of advice above...

 

[kuksul08]

I have this neat little wrench that looks like a box end wrench but opens up like pliers. It would work great for this I bet. I think it's a form of battery terminal pliers.

 

[Busy Little Shop]

First line of attack for a tough nut is too hammer on a 6 point appropriate size
socket... 6 points will shape the nut for maximum grip...