water pump bolts

Soo i was going to change my water pump out and that should have only taken bout 30 min or so to do. I only had to take some pullys and my fan off and remove other stuff.. so far i have most of bolts out. I have two bolts that are striped out from another owner before me and i cant get them out.. so untill then i cant drive my truck till the new pumps on. The bolt heads are round and have a star pattern in the middle... so if any one has any tip on how to get them out would be alot of help...

this really sucks only two bolts holdin me up and i dont know what to do with out breakin somthing.

get one of those taps for stripped bolts and use that.

post a pic is the star patter rounded off? if not buy the key that would fit in there if anything drill them out and retap it for the new bolts to work. another option dependin on how much room is to weld a nut on that bolt and go from there

I got the pump off now thank god.. now i got to get whats left of the bolt out.. shouldnt be hard..

does anyone know where i can get new bolts to replace my broken bolts for my water pump or if anyone has a chevy 2.8L sittin around the dosnt need the bolts pleae let me kno...

napa or get gade 8 bolts from home depot etc.

good article about removing broken bolts
http://www.secondchancegarage.com/public/671.cfm

I got one out now i need to get the one more and then i can put it all back together and then:draggin:

nice job man how you get it out? what yo udo?

I had these bolt out removers from craftman they work for hex heads and i hammerd one on use a ratchet to turn it and it came out.. now i need a smaller one then what i have to get the other out.. should have it drivin tomarrow or thursday

Glad to hear you are getting them out..Now we can go cruise up north soon.

well now the block is fucked up kuz i tryed to drill the last bolt out and sence the bolt was broken a little in side and it was a bitch to center and it tuned out it didnt work..

how bad is the block messed up?

just started to drill the side out a lil so not much but not sure id prob have to tap the hole bigger.

Its about time i got al broken bolts out and now im in the process of cleanin it and puttin it back together.. soo hell yeah the fortune cookies were right lol