I cannot get the T25 screw on top RH of the Windscreen bracket to loosen - any suggestions?

Have you tried calling Lamonster Garage?

Several ways of getting stuck screws out. That is a torx and sometimes people might have used a hex bit to tighten it some and stripped it.

If you can get to it with a very small, and very sharp center punch, you might be able to tap it in the counterclockwise direction with a small hammer and get it started loosening up.

Another way is using a Dremel rotary tool with the smallest cut off wheels they make to slot the screw and then use a common screwdriver to back it out. If you try that, be sure to wear a face shield or at least goggles, because those small cutoff wheels are bad about exploding and sending pieces flying everywhere. Don't try running the Dremal full speed. Cut the RPMs down with the adjustment wheel and it will help keep the wheel from jumping and grabbing. Just set the RPMs where it barely throws sparks and slowly, very slowly, ease it into the metal.

After you tried all that, the other possibility is to drill the head off it. Exact center, with a bit just about 3/4 the diameter of the full screw head. Center punch exact middle of the screw head first. Drill in just a short ways, and the head will pop off. Then after you get the windshield out of the way, maybe you can get hold of what is left of the screw shaft with some vise grip pliers or small channel locks.

If the screw is galled on the threads. you gonna have to tap the thread with a good set of taps the proper size, and you may even have to drill the galled threads out to the next size up and put a larger screw in to put it back on. Whatever you do, use a blue Locktite on it when you replace it. The Locktite not only helps keep it from backing off, it also helps keep the threads from welding to each other from over torquing. You can take one of the other screws with you to a real hardware store, as opposed to a huge home improvement store, and they will be able to find the right taps.

There is usually no easy way to deal with cross threaded screws or bolts. Whatever you do to get it out may mess up the threads, but the threads might already be messed up and that is why it won't turn.

If you can get a good purchase on it with the Torx bit (ie the head’s not damaged) then can you apply heat without damaging any surrounding plastic? If I remember correctly these are Loctited on and some gentle heat will soften the Loctite.

Andres

Loctite they do have

thereverend said:

I bought a new windshield from Lamonster Garage, and I went to install it, and I cannot get the T25 screw on the right hand top of the bracket to loosen, any suggestions will be helpful, the left-hand side was no problem. It looks to be a stainless-steel screw.

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Drill the head off carefully, the rest should unscrew with finger pressure

To heat up Locktite without melting everything around it, you can heat up a small bolt that just fits on the screw head to red hot with butane or Mapp torch and stick the end of the bolt on the screw head a few seconds. Lock the bolt in vise grips to handle it. That might soften up any Locktite.

Since it's on the windshield and you do not state that it is stripped and I wouldn't want to melt or crack the windshield, I would try penetrating oil to lube the screw, wait a few minutes and give it a try. If that doesn't work, I would apply more oil and using a vise grip on the handle of your torx tool to give you more leverage. I would continue adding the oil and increasing the pressure slightly each attempt, being careful to not strip the torx head.
Take your time and I hope it works.

When I had my windshield off that darn Loctite was a pain, needless to say it didn't get reapplied!!! Heat gun, softly!

Must be the yellow Locktite the factory puts on everything. You can clean all that off the threads and put BLUE Locktite on it when you put it back together. Blue Locktite does not harden like the yellow stuff. You can back bolts and screws out that have been put in with the blue Locktite after years of being assembled.

Heat things up with a soldering iron held to the head of the bolt?

Sarah

My favorite as well. Soldiering iron puts heat exactly where you need it.