Removing sheared bolts

[sandman2234]

Drill bit extenders tend to allow a little bit of wobble, which is not good when you are trying to drill in the center of the broken bolt.
I would shop for longer drill bits... they are available somewhere!!! Probably not a Harbor Freight, Lowes or Home Depot but machine tool suppliers should have them.
David from jax

 

[Lgim]

A couple questions.

Is the grey metal behind the fuel filter the engine block or some other cast part of the drive train or is it like a frame rail that the engine sits inside of?

I’m assuming you want to go thru the orange bracket and then drill a hole down the centre of the broken bolt. Now based on the welding on the bracket and the 3 broken bolts I would have to guess that there was movement where there shouldn’t be movement. So then the next question is when you parked the tractor and all the movement stopped did the holes in the bracket return to being directly over the broken bolts? My concern would be if the bracket is 1/8 th of an inch off, drilling down the centre of the bracket will make the hole down one side, off centre on the bolt. If not perfectly lined up I would probably pull the bracket off and work on the broken bolts in the open.

g