Removing "threaded Cup" On Beam Tube

[skeggyrik 3]

Trying to remove the "Threaded Cup" on the Beam tube, the bit the torsion bar stud goes through.

 

How do you get this little blighter out? I stuck a flat screw driver in the slotted hole and made a round hole!

 

I then stuck a large diameter stud extractor in the newly round hole and it's just tearing the centre out of it instead of turning it out.

 

So do I either cut a slot across the whole lot and get some kind of lever in there,

OR

Take a slice of each side, making a set of flats to get a spanner on?

 

it's well stuck in there. I've been lubing it.

 

Thoughts?

 

I only tried to get it out as I got new bits to put in. I should have just left them, they were fine. Now I've buggered the hole (for want of a better expression) I have to get it out and fit the new one.

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

I'd hate to think how rusty these get and the thread is quite long for what it is, A air chisel might do the job, It get's most bolts out for me other than that it's a case of Perseverance

[travill 0]

I just hammer them in from one side with an old chisel to make it into a c shape, if you get what i mean.

[skeggyrik 3]

I just hammer them in from one side with an old chisel to make it into a c shape, if you get what i mean.

 

I get what you mean. Not the answer I was hoping for. It's going to be a real pig isn't it!

 

Thanks for the responses.

 

Never easy is it

[skeggyrik 3]

Just to close this, I got it out in the end. It wasn't too much trouble. I cut a slot from the centre hole to the edge of the "cup" taking care not to cut too far and damage the thread in the beam tube. I then knocked it in on itself so it took on a C-shape, with a bolster chisel and lump hammer. Once the threads has pulled away from one side it span out now problem. It took 10 mins. No reason to replace this part really as they were in fine condition before I started. I left the other side as it was, no point risking sh*gging the threads just so I can put the same part back but new and shiny. It got cleaned back to bare and painted along with the rest of the tube anyway.

 

Rich

[B1ack_Mi16 67]

I just use to weld a short M12 bolt onto it and then just undo the bolt to get it out, have worked good every time.