Rusted Screws!!! Help!!

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BlkSupra87

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Ok... How do I remove stubborn screws?? I got the expensive plastic/rubber pieces today.... now I cant get the old stuff off to put the new ones on!!:3d_frown:

The old screws wont budge... any ideas? what has worked for you???:1zhelp:
 
Bishop92t

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WD40 or using a cutting tool (dremel) to cut a large notch in the screw to use a large flathead screwdrive on. Depends on how determined you are. Screw extractor might work as well, depends on the particular problem.
 
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Depends where they are. I've had good luck with simply cleaning out the heads with a pick, and using a perfect phillips bit for the screw.
That or an impact driver, but that only works certain places...
 
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What Bishop said. I dunno about the WD 40 though, there is better stuff out there. Or drill and extract.

If the screws are phillips and the driver is camming out first be sure the driver is the correct size then try dipping the tip in valve lapping compound. Works on most stubbon screws. I used to do that a lot until I finally went out and bought diamond dusted tipped drivers. Worth every penny I paid for them.
 
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BlkSupra87

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These screws are located at the side of the hatch, its the part where the hatch hooks on to the body... the damn expensive pieces I bought!!!!... Now I have to get new screws too....ugh... only one came out!!!:cry: :3d_frown:
 
Clip

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alright. hardware store around here has something called strip-out and it sounds a bit like valve lapping compound. its a rough grit that you squeeze onto your screw head and it gives you more contact/grip on the thing. if that doesn't work and youre willing to sacrifice a screwdriver, jbweld it in place and break the whole thing loose the next day. we used to use that trick in paintball removing stripped allen head screws. course, you could just cut the end off of the wrench and have a useable one left. a bit more difficult with phillips though.
 
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Clip said:
if that doesn't work and youre willing to sacrifice a screwdriver, jbweld it in place and break the whole thing loose the next day.
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That's a good one as well. I used it before to remove some wheel locks.
 
Kai

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I had rusted screws on my wiper arms, tried taking those off even after soaking them in WD40 for a night, and the heads sheared straight off. Got one wiper blade held on with Araldite and of course, Toyota dont sell the wiper arms anymore :'(

Be very, very careful removing them, try using something like plusgas on them, and if its metal on metal, use a blowtorch or a heatgun to heat up the screws before removing them.
 
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