Doing the headgaskets and getting ready to tear off the lower intake.

I go to loosen the alternator ground wire and the nut, bolt, and entire brass plug twists out of the alternator.

Now what?

 

Drink

 

Found a local alternator shop that might be able to fix it.

It's probably not the ground wire, but the lug for the rectifier.

 

Hope it all gets rectified! I hate the thought of broken bolts...

 

Broken bolts stink but are a part of the "fun" of DIY. You learn your lesson pretty quickly to be light handed with the wrenches but some times things happens.

 

For future reference, what is the procedure for removing them. I have heard of heating them with a torch but have no idea how, getting some sort of kit from harbor freight but I don't understand that at all, and drilling them out which I have always assumed means to actually drill the center of the stuck bolt until it is able to be removed. I am prob about to tackle a couple of HG and I have a feeling this info would come in handy... Not trying to highjack but any help would be appreciated.

 

Well it would seem your name is fitting atleast.

 

Heavily...preferably a single malt scotch...Glenlivet works great...but please don't drink and wrench...or drive.

 

I don't think there was anything that I could have done differently.

As soon as I started to turn the wrench, out it came.

It's not really a bolt so much as a brass plug soldered in some way to the interior the rectifier.

I suspect that it had been almost completely broken by an installer who overtightened it. All it took was a little pressure and it fractured the rest of the way.

 

Looks like you avoided a future problem out on the road though...