If nothing else works, I have a simple technique that I have used for years
with all manner of stripped fasteners. It ruins them so it's a last resort,
but I take a chisel and hammer and put a notch in the side of the bolt or
screw head. I then rotate the chisel so it is at an angle to the bolt head
and pound away. The chisel digs in but the sideways torque always loosens
the bolt before the chisel goes through the bolt head. I have never not been
able to loosen a fastener this way, except in those cases when a chisel (or
even a short slotted screwdriver) would not fit.

On 12/8/06 8:59 AM, "chris" <chris@MCCLURKEN.COM> wrote:

> Anyone out there know of a tool for stuck/stripped/rounded out CV Joint
> bolt? I'm swapping the transmission on my 85 GL and I've found a
> nightmare or stripped bolts. The outside of the bolts look kind of
> threaded which makes me think whoever messed with them last used a
> tool...but I have no idea what.
>
> Suggestions appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
> Nashville, TN
> 85 Vanagon GL manual