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Message: [QUOTE="flykawasaki, post: 268898, member: 27756"] [b]broken bolt master[/b] I have grown up around my grandfather who is the guy that can literaly fix anything. So I have had a good amount of experience dealing with these problems. I recently broke off the bolts in the pince clamps on the bottom of my forks. I drove all over town trying to get someone to try and extract it. I went to all kinds of heavy duty machine shops and the only place that would even try was a motorcycle shop. The succeeded in gettig only one of the two out. A few months later I gave the other a shot and got it out very easily myself. The key is CENTER PUNCHING THE BOLT. Harbor freight makes a set of punches that work excellent for this. They look like a solid cylinder with a pointy bump on one end. Basically its a center punch that isn't tapered which allows you to acturately center punch the bolt with having to guess using a tapered punch. I will try and find a web site to show you what I mean. The guys at the MX shop that worked on mine didn't center punch it well enough and the drill bit slid off and started digging into the side of the hole. Another way to get a center punch started it to drill it with a drill bit as large as the hole itself. Only drill deep enough to get low spot in the middle. This works because of the shape of the head of the bit and because you use a drill the same size as the hold it can't move around on you. Then use small drill bit (left hand if you like but not required) to drill a hold through the center of the bolt without hitting the sides of the hole. I assume you are not familiar with extration tools from the replies earlier. The reason for the left handed drill bit is that the spril works so that it drills when turning counter clockwise and the turning motion with aid in unscrewing the remains of the bolt. Once you get a small hole through the bolt pound an easy out (there are spiral ones and ones that look like a +... I recommend the spiral ones) into the hole lightly and then use the easy out to screw out the bolt remains... [/QUOTE]

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