Re: Broken bolt on water pump housing

[retiredoz]

Somewhere I read the ‘shop’ solution (rather than spending time/money/frustration trying to drill the damn bolt out) is to take a chisel and hammer to the housing, exposing the bolt stub. Those housings are commonplace, no problem finding replacement. That’s assuming the bolt broke in the housing rather than in the gearcase. I’m no drilling expert, so I’ve had to resort to that tactic a time or two.