Drive Flange bolts sheared

Hello all,

decided to finally get round to doing the front offside wheel bearing today in an attempt to rid the disco of the death wobble once and for all, its just been in the garage for a new clutch, new trackrod and ends and i replaced the nearside bearings a couple of weeks ago as they had collapsed.

now when i was doing the nearside i had a bit of a mare with the spacers fitted by the previous owner, Im guessing he has used threadlock on the nuts as i couldn't shift em so had to grind a little of the inside of the spacer to allow me to remove the driveflange to get into the bearings and so on, not a major issue it was just a case of taking off about 1 mm all round the inside of the spacer to slip the flange out.

Now let me say I have had this disco only about 8 weeks so am getting round to the jobs as soon as i can but i have been giving it some stick offroad in the interim,

so went round to the offside today grinder at the ready, jacked up and placed on axle stands only to see the spacer is only thing that has been keeping the sodding drive flange on, the barsteward that had it before me had siliconed the sodding flange bolts in because they were all sheared off with barely enough left to get penetration through the flange, i struggled like a tw@t to get the spacer off using a breaker bar with a 1 mtr extension tube and some serious beating with a F.B.H so i could get to the flange below, removed it, nipped up the bearings(no point replacing at the mo as im gonna be doing this again in a very short while) and put it all back together as best i could,

could only get 3 of the 5 sheared bolts back in, looking at the ends of them they have been shagged for a good while one has a fresh break and i think this is the only one thats been holding it all together, now I have bodged it back together using a couple of washers to get clearance from whats left in the threads and nipped it up wedged some washers in between the spacer and the drive flange to take some of the strain and put it all back together again, now my question is whats the best thing to do, is it try and drill out the old broken threaded bits with reverse drills maybe, drill and tap new holes between the old or should i just get a fresh one? bare in mind im in Poland so finding bits here is a problem and delivery from paddocks and the like is bloody expensive especially for something as weighty as a hub assembly.

And I would just like to take this opportunity to say that if you were the previous owner of a Belgium plated disco 1 old reg RAM 960, you sir are a ****, why use bloody silicone to hide that, arse arse arse.:doh:

ftc942 is hub and is the same front /back on all 300 models disco ,def ,and rrc ,bolts are 10.9 and so snap easy ,you really need to be right as all drive to wheel goes through them,reverse drill good idea as normally will come out,as its not binding thread that snaps them

I wish I could help on the flange issue but sadly I can't. However I would say that I have known lots of Polish tucking companies in the uk. In my old job we had them in all the time as they took vehicles (insurance write offs etc) back to Poland on a back load.

My point is that if you get in touch with them I bet you could arrange to have them bring some parts back with them. Just get the parts delivered to where they are picking up.

A bit of a long shot but easily sorted with some phone calls I would have thought.

managed to find a 300 tdi being broken here on the Polish equivalent of eblag, 100 zloty for the hub and 25 zloty delivery, about 30 quid all in, so just hoping the thing holds out till weekend when the bits should be here.

the disco managed a good days off road today with battered flanges so im hopeful it should be ok on the road for a few days.