Get it up on jackstands or ramps, so you are sitting flat on your butt with your head in the tunnel looking directly at the end of the shaft. To make the whole process easier, don't do it with the jeep on it's tires and your laying on the ground.
#Tap tap breaking hack free install
I've install a lot of these now and here are some tricks I use to knock the install time down to about 45 minutes.įor the drilling, I already covered the cheap bits thing.
Hopefully someone has a better idea.Īre you laying on the ground doing this install? That sucked!!!!! Good think you have a buddy, so you can take turns at the drill, because that drill gets heavy when you drill that long. I'm thinking it was 3/16" or maybe a 1/4" bit.
I think I spent 8 hours and about $40 in bits before I got past my broke bit, but it was a much larger titanium. You are going to burn up quite a few of these, so cheap is good, so they can be thrown away, or if it breaks again, just shatter it and pull the pieces out. I would get a couple 3/16" bits (cheapos), and start drilling the hole bigger, and go slow speed. That is a very small bit (I usually start at 1/8" and work my way up). As for what to do, I did have this happen to me before I started the cheapo bit trick. I know that doesn't help your current situation, but it may help someone in the future before they get into that mess. The best part about them is if you break one inside the hole, you take a punch and a hammer, and they shatter into easy to remove pieces (with needle nose pliers). With those bits and slow speeds with steady pressure, they do the job very quickly. I use those cheap black Black and Decker bits from WalMart (the kit for $17.96 or so). That is why I never recommend using those fancy expensive bits on that job. Can anyone recommend a way to either extract or drill through the 1/16" titanium bit without causing any unnecessary damage to the output shaft? Any advice would be appreciated. If you are familiar with RE's hack n tap system then you will know that there isn't much tolerance for screwing up this hole which will ultimately need to be about 21/64 of an inch when all is said and done. (So there is roughly 3/4 of an inch still in there.) Though it probably wasn't the best idea, we grabbed a slightly larger titanium bit and drilled in until we hit the broken bit and couldn't go any further. The bit broke not only at the end of the hacked shaft but as I soon found out, also about a 1/4" into the shaft. It is a 1/16" titanium bit drilled in about 1" deep. Everything was going smoothly until he snapped off a bit while drilling a pilot hole in the hacked end of the TC output shaft. My buddy & I were installing a RE SYE hack n tap on my 99XJ without removing the TC.
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