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Bolts broken that mount the muffler on John Deere 1032d. Bolt extractors broke inside bolt…
I’m pretty screwed. The bolts had broken that mount the muffler on my old John Deere 1032d. Drilled out the centers, sprayed everything with pb blaster inserted the extractor and it snapped off inside. Okay well if I can at least get one bolt in I won’t go deaf or start a fire so I tried the same thing and another extractor broke into the other. I tried smacking them with a hammer and a punch and that just made everything even more mangled and fucked. I’m pretty sure these boots are welded in there at this point from heat and corrosion. There’s one small bolt on top that kind of holds the muffler in place but these two mount it flush to the block. Do I have any options?
u/MuffDiving — 4 days ago