aaahhhhh crud!!!

Get a single hex 12mm socket on it and keep turning it in and out, using wd40 liberally until it comes out.

MrCheerful

Tried that, thats how I eventually rounded it :(

Might just give up on it as I can't think of a way of doing it without possibly causing more damage. It's having it's front brakes sorted on Sat so might get the guy who's doing that to take a gander.

At least Winters (hopefully) coming to a close, might get nearly another year out of it before I get major problems.

Tim

It is usually only double hex sockets that round off things !! The cure is to weld a cheap socket on and use that to remove it.

MrCheerful

Yep, thats the other idea I had. I think it garage time as I dont know how to weld (yet).

Tim

If the car starts OK and you aren't that worried about changing them, why were you changing them?

Sorry, maybe I wasn't that clear. Starts first time but seems to struggle a bit, like a petrol when the dizzy caps knackered seems to not quite fire on all cylinders for a few seconds. After that it runs fine so I was just going to swap them to solve that.

Going to the local mechanic on Sat for the brakes to be done and he says he will have a look see what he can do. Says he will probably end up welding a socket on it (MrCheerful suggested the same thing) and he will change them if he can get them out :)

Hopefully it wont start so rough once done.

Tim