rusty bolts inside the airbox

[Pete M]

any tips?  only one is still a 13mm. the other 2 are rotted. 

 

there's no way I'm the first to deal with this.   I assume I'll need to drill them out but am open to other ideas.   not a lot of access in there for that back one

[89 MJ]

I've had good luck pounding a slightly smaller 6 point socket over the rust bolts and getting them out. 

[JZLAJeep]

Can you grind them off from the bottom?

[Pete M]

I went with the hammer-a-socket method and was successful  

 

 

got the nut off with a 10mm socket (pretty sure it used to be 13mm )

 

snapped the one using a standard socket

 

got the other whole one out using a 12mm

 

now I need to find my extractor set and see if I can remove the snapped bit out from the bottom

 

[89 MJ]

39 minutes ago, Pete M said:

I went with the hammer-a-socket method and was successful  

 

 

got the nut off with a 10mm socket (pretty sure it used to be 13mm )

 

snapped the one using a standard socket

 

got the other whole one out using a 12mm

 

now I need to find my extractor set and see if I can remove the snapped bit out from the bottom

 

The method is a bit crude and you feel bad pound a socket on, but it does provide pretty good results. Crazy that you had to go down to a 10mm!