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CVO Technical => Drive Train => Topic started by: LMR on March 10, 2018, 10:08:57 AM

Title: T-70 bolt
Post by: LMR on March 10, 2018, 10:08:57 AM

This thing is kicking my a**! I even put my heavy duty impact on an it still won’t budge. Any tricks worth giving?

Title: Re: T-70 bolt
Post by: elderjim on March 10, 2018, 04:44:29 PM

Heat it with a propane torch. That will melt the loctite on the bolt. Then run a bottoming tap on the inside threads to make sure all the residual loctite is gone. I have heard of people not running a tap it the threads only to think they have the bolt torqued to specs after the new install only to find out they were binding on residual loctite in the internal threads.

Title: Re: T-70 bolt
Post by: LMR on March 10, 2018, 10:12:35 PM

Finally got it with a breaker bar. I tried heating it up, tightening and then loosening and nothing. With the breaker bar, that bolt was making creaking noises. Beyond me why it needs to be that tight.

Title: Re: T-70 bolt
Post by: LC110 on March 11, 2018, 10:25:18 AM

Make sure you use a New Bolt and as stated before use a bottoming thread chaser and clean it out real well with brake parts cleaner or something that will evaporate. And if you thought it was creaking when you loosened it. Wait to you hear the creaks when you tighten it.

Title: Re: T-70 bolt
Post by: RayG on March 11, 2018, 09:02:29 PM

I've installed a number of compensators and have to agree with the reply from elderjim. 

Title: Re: T-70 bolt
Post by: VANAMAL on March 15, 2018, 11:04:33 PM

One of the companys sell a thread chaser kit to clean out old locktite where applied