67-69 barracuda hood slider solution?

[Cuda_Carl]

Found a great straight and no dent 68 hood for my barracuda but one of the hood attaching bolts is super rusty and broken off in the slider that’s inside the hood. Any remedies rather than trying to drill it out and retap or going after the whole mechanism by cutting open the hood…? I did cut open my bent up and rusty hood to see if I could fab something…

 

[jeff alder]

soak it multiple times. KROIL penetrant if you have it. PB Blaster would be an alternate choice. (No Heat) Center punch the broken bolt. If the "break" isn't a clean break use a one size smaller drill bit than what the bolt is on the center you already punched until you get a funnel shape to the broken end of the bolt. Now try a left-hand drill bit. If that doesn't work drill all the way thru the broken bolt. MAKE SURE YOU ARE SPOT ON CENTER. So now you have soaked it multiple times...you have created some heat by drilling the bolt through. Try the EZ out. If that doesn't work drill the broken bolt using the appropriately sized bit for the size of a tap to make the original bolt hole size. Drill all the way thru with the correct drill bit and tap the original hole to the original bolt size. The center punch being spot on center is critical here. You may have to dig out remaining pieces of the original bolt from the original threaded hole before it can be tapped. I usually use an oring pick for this. This is a pain in the arse but usually works. Just tap it nice and slow with lube so no remaining bolt fragments break your tap off in the hole. Good Luck!

 

[4spdragtop]

Use the one good hole(that's what she said ) to thread a bolt in and keep stable while you PB blaster and soak. Center punch, mild heat and LH drill bit?

 

[Cuda_Carl]

Use the one good hole(that's what she said ) to thread a bolt in and keep stable while you PB blaster and soak. Center punch, mild heat and LH drill bit?

I was feeling lucky, so I cut out the mount from inside the hood and made a replica out of sheet metal (16ga) and 8ga) welded on some nuts to hold the mounting bolts and made a replacement. Took me about an hour after I got the right guage metal. Welded it back in place and it works great - but it did take me about 10 hours total with clean up and getting the metal. Thanks for the replies.