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      09-08-2014, 09:32 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by gthberg View Post
Any brilliant ideas out there for removing half of the coolant expansion tank bleed screw? I was flushing the radiator today, and while I was doing the final bleed, the screw snapped in half (with hardly any torque, which is awesome)....should have seen the fountain of coolant spouting up in the air! So, I'll grab a new one, but I'm having a rough time getting the old one out, without any top to it. I'd like to avoid drilling it, so I don't get a bunch of plastic shavings in my expansion tank.

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Mine did the same thing. What I did that worked really well. Take a cutter/razor blade and start making straight lines, deep enough that you can use a flat head screw driver to back it out. Took me about 10-15 mins, but it worked well.

So the top of that left over part should look close to this:
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