I set out today to install some Quadratec mirrors (https://www.quadratec.com/products/13111_0410_14.htm) so I could have some side mirrors while rolling without doors.
The mirror brackets installation requires removal of 4 T-40 screws from the Jeep (which obviously have never been removed since manufacture in ~2005). Three of these were relatively easily removed, but the fourth stripped beyond utility. I've spent the afternoon trying to extract this screw quite unsuccessfully. The screw head is counter-sunk, and I am unable to cut a slot into it that is deep enough to be useful. I tried two types of extraction bits while attempting to drill out the screw shaft, and neither worked. I've given up for today as the second extractor bit broke off in the hole I drilled out of the shaft of the screw. Now that I have a hardened extractor bit in the center of my screw / hole, I do not have any idea how to safely remove this mess.
I need to get this screw out somehow. I no longer have any viable plan for how to get it out. Any ideas?