These are the six bolts that held the pressure plate onto the flywheel of my BMW. The pressure plate, as you remember, busted out a rusty shiv Sunday night and carved its metaphoric initials into the back of my hand. Not to be made any bolts' bitch, I've since removed each of the bolts—including the one that took a freaking Dremel to cut off.
As yet another (related) side note to BMW: don't use low-grade allen bolts in situations where they're going to have to undergo serious torque. See what happens when you do? See?
Just finished helping a friend drill out 10 - count 'em 10 - 13mm bolts from a super beatle. After about the 3rd sheared head we almost started with the drill instead of the rench.
Hahaha that's awesome. Probably a great way to burn through 5/16" bits, though.
What were you trying to remove?
fenders. they were step one is separating the body from the frame - which insedntly was easier than taking off the fenders.
Remember when Raven said this was going to be easy? Rule 1 of automotive service; never trust the Belgians.
Raven-
Makes sense, certainly for the rear fenders. Not so sure about the fronts.
Justin-
Yeah, that had occured to me. I knew it would be harder than he said—and now that I've torn everything apart, I've found a bunch of stuff that needed replacing anyway while I'm in there (main seals, pilot bearing, intake manifold seals, ICV boot, etc.). So, probably a good thing.
--Dan