Handle bar bolts won't move!!!!! Any ideas??

[Tatonka]

Friend installing lamonster power plate….impact wrench doesn’t move a bolt…any ideas ?

 

[TCBoone]

My approach would be to try a penetrating lubricant and then attempt to remove it with a large breaker bar. Leverage can be your friend. Just my initial idea suppose others may have better recommendations. Stuck bolts can be a challenge sometimes, finding out which part of what you are trying to remove will give first.

 

[Haze]

Apply heat to the bolt by inserting a soldering iron tip into the socket head of the bolt. It may take a long time but the idea is to soften the loctite deep in the threads.

 

[Peteoz]

Yes, along the lines of what David said above. The BRP yellow loctite, which they do NOT use sparingly, can make bolt removal “difficult”. Heat is your friend.

Pete

 

[safecracker]

On mine I used a good quality hex socket and a long breaker bar. I first used a 6 inch extension with hex socket and gave the bolts 4 or 5 good wacks with a 3 lb hammer. It worked.

 

[Brad0414]

Heat Gun

 

[SLICE]

mine were so tight that i broke an snap on allen socket.


an old trick is to try and tighten them, then loosen, that's what worked for me.

just give em a hard yank, then try and loosen.

 

[CloverHillCrawler]

You need a small torch like lamonster uses in this video in order to soften the loctite. I used the same torch ( a small bernzomatic butane) for my floorboards and mounting my centermount ram ball on my handlebars with no issues.

It makes a very small flame that you can point right in the center of the bolt to heat it and not hit anything else .. it works great and costs less than $20.

 

[Tatonka]

That sounds like the answer

 

[Mazo EMS2]

A little heat and a couple good direct whacks with a punch in the center of the bolt head. One of my bolts broke off just below the head of it when I was doing this project. Be careful if just using a long breaker bar, the bolts can break....been there