Bad luck or does God really just hate me that much?

[adsm08]

Takes all of 15 bux and twenty minutes.

And doesn't work on plastic bolts. Not relevant just FYI.

 

[michowski]

If you take the housing off isnt there the top part of the bolt broken sticking up enough to get with a vise or good pair of channel locks?

Broken bolt is nothing dude. Could of been worse, could of been on the first drive and it through a rod or something and just killed your new engine. Everyone has there streak of bad luck times, your is just now and it will pass.

 

[mentalbreakdown00]

your having a good run of bad luck, to quote a song anyways

 

[ragajungle]

I snapped the same thermostat housing bolt on my nephews 2.9L and was about to try another one and I remembered the Coke machine incident

(The first 3 coins dropped in the fourth disappeared somewhere in there, so I kept adding more coins until I sunk $3 in the damn machine!...I really wanted a damn Coke)

so now he only has 2 bolts holding it on and no new thermostat

I'll do the other ones when I have a welder available (Weld a different bolt head on it and extract it)

 

[feellnfroggy]

And doesn't work on plastic bolts. Not relevant just FYI.

Yes good point, but I figured he had enough common sense not to use plastic bolts on his thermostat housing. LOL