Thread: Broke Valve Cover bolt, FML

You're not alone my friend. I just broke valve cover bolt while I was swapping. And started looking for possible solutions and that's where I found your post. LOL..

Mine is not that deep enough, so hopefully I will be able to remove it through bolt extractor kit

ive been running a snapped VC bolt for a while
no leaks
but RTV is key the second time around i did mine with more rtv and no leaks

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Cool man.. f**k it.. Its kinda PITA to remove that bolt anyways.. I will just make sure I use proper RTV.. Out of curiosity,do you think local hardware places have VC bolt?

not one like our oem im sure you can get a bolt that will suffice just match thread/pitch

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Originally Posted by apatel

You're not alone my friend. I just broke valve cover bolt while I was swapping. And started looking for possible solutions and that's where I found your post. LOL..

Mine is not that deep enough, so hopefully I will be able to remove it through bolt extractor kit

Did you break that exact bolt? All the other bolt holes have an open bottom end besides the one I broke. If its different, you should be able to screw it out somehow, or just start bolting a new bolt in until the old broke peice comes out

I tried taking off my valve and it was stuck on no matter hard I pulled. I said fk it just put the bolts back. Didn't need to worry about the bolts aymore