Broken hood bolt

Joes03Stang · Sunday at 2:16 PM

So in my want to customize I came across the hood struts on American muscle as an open box. For $45 I figured why not

I have really tried to be careful when bolting and unbolting items on this vehicle as I know she's 21 years old however I let my aggression get to me while bolting the strut on and tighten the nut too far.

As one could guess the bolt broke off. Now I'm at a loss of what I'm supposed to do

Suggestions on how to fix this. Is it something that might be simply fixed or is this going to cost me a lot?

white95 · Sunday at 3:51 PM

Never had to extract one.

@RAU03MACH Been in this situation before?

ttocs · Sunday at 5:21 PM

there looks to be enough to be able to grab it with some plyers. Otherwise if you know a welder, weld a nut to it and then it will come right out.

Joes03Stang · Sunday at 5:38 PM

I don't know if this is something that can be extracted. I think it's a stud coming from a plate between the hood. Or do those studs screw out?

Joes03Stang · Monday at 4:18 PM

So we were able to fix it today. I did not take photos of the process, but should this happen to anyone in the future.

There was enough of the broken stud that we hooked a pair of vice grips to it (very tightly) and was able to carefully wiggle in all directions until the stud pulled out.

Then we found a bolt in my random collection of nuts and bolts, and went to the Advance and got a tap.

We tapped threads thru the hole and had to drill out the hinge a little for the size of the bolt.

Once done we added a little glue to the threads and were able to screw the hinge back in place.