Re: Stripped torx bolt holding mirror

Thanks I'll give it a try. Another person suggested hammering a flat head i=
n
there.

Erik


On 3/9/06, Jim Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Erik Weber wrote:
> > Ah well, looking at it from the outside I thought it was the bolt but
> now I
> > see that it's the nut (10 in the diagram). That diagram should really
> show
> > two 10s per mirror, as there are two bolts that need nuts.
> >
> Right.
>
>
> > And yes, one of them is a silver allen nut. But the other (on my bike)
> is a
> > gold-colored torx nut! And a stripped one at that. I wonder if this is
> > something someone crammed on there after the wreck.
> >
>
> You might see if you can get a small vise-grip wrench on the head of the
> torx
> nut (gripping from the outside).  Another possibility is to get an allen
> wrench
> that won't quite fit in the torx socket and drive it in with a hammer.  O=
r
> maybe
> do the same thing with the next larger torx wrench.  You get the idea.
>
> A long shot would be to slip a 3mm allen through the nut into the end of
> the
> mounting stud.  Long shot because 3mm isn't very big and the stud is
> loctited
> into the mirror body...
>
> -js
>
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> Jim Stewart
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