Broke strut housing thingaroo

[PUSHER]

Swapping out my shocks and when I go to unscrew the top strut housing perch I broke off the octagonal piece. So now I have nothing to wrench on and it is threaded inside of the strut housing. Plan 1 for tommorrow is to jb weld the piece back on, plan 2 is to try and drill the piece back on and try and wrench on the piece. If anyone has any bright ideas, please chime in.

[panchovisa]

Pusher, I believe your talking about the gland nut that retains the shock insert in the strut tube?

If you broke off the hex, than the shock insert is still in the tube right?

Find a large nut at Home Depot/ hardware store. It should be small enough across the flats to allow welding to what remains of gland nut, but you may have to drill out inside of nut to fit over shock rod (leave some clearance).

The taller nut (even after laying a weld against the flats) will give you more to grab onto than the thin hex of the gland nut.

Try heating the strut tube (to expand it) and cooling just the gland nut in water ( to shrink it) before wrenching. Good luck.

[PUSHER]

Blowtorched it and got it out, thanks for the idea though.