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OK, I was doing it right all along. It's just hard to explain this stuff with text sometimes. Anyways, I bought a new impact driver (Ampro) and it's much much larger than the crummy HF one. I managed to get 3 screws out, mangle 2 to the point of requiring the heads drilled off, and the last one has a pretty deformed head but there's still a little grip left in it. Tomorrow I'm trying an ez-out on the shafts stuck in the case. I'll try to post a picture a little later comparing the two drivers.

All will be replaced with recessed allen-heads! Thanks for the help everyone.
 
The impact wrench can rotate either direction, depending on how you rotate it before whacking it with the hammer. Put some large wood screws in a 2x4, clamp it in a vise, and practice before you resume work on your motorcycle.
 
79-GS550-L said:
All will be replaced with recessed allen-heads! Thanks for the help everyone.
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great to hear you're getting ahead with your project :)

79-GS550-L said:
OK, I was doing it right all along. It's just hard to explain this stuff with text sometimes. Anyways, I bought a new impact driver (Ampro) and it's much much larger than the crummy HF one. I managed to get 3 screws out, mangle 2 to the point of requiring the heads drilled off, and the last one has a pretty deformed head but there's still a little grip left in it. Tomorrow I'm trying an ez-out on the shafts stuck in the case. I'll try to post a picture a little later comparing the two drivers.

All will be replaced with recessed allen-heads! Thanks for the help everyone.
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Warning: EZ Outs have a established nasty habit of breaking off in your broken bolt or screw at the exact moment you turn them.

Unsure of which engineer devised the steel formulation, but I along with others know from personal experience they are too brittle & hard for their intended application.

I suspect the EZ out material is a high carbon hypereutectoid steel, perhaps martensite or cemmentite.
 
Finally got all the bolts out. 3 had to be extracted with the ez-out. It worked like a charm. But when trying to get the bottom bolt out of one of my fork legs, the ez-out snapped off. Which I kinda thought it would, since it was a little too small for that bolt, but I was planning on replacing the forks anyways because of rust, so I'm not upset about that. But I sure am glad it didn't break off in my crankcase!

Now, off to split the cases...
 
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