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Steve
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6th Oct 10 at 19:11   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
..in a confined space where you cant get a breaker bar to it?

Improvise

Scotty C
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6th Oct 10 at 19:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Remove the exhaust?
SportBoy
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6th Oct 10 at 19:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
small arms tbh. have a bowl of wheatabix.
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6th Oct 10 at 19:23   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
removing exhaust would have been more hassle tbh, most of it is original system and will be rusted to feck

this solution was quick and easy
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6th Oct 10 at 19:25   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
otherside is equally as bad, fuel tank is in the way other side
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6th Oct 10 at 19:26   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
cut it off with dremel and get new bolt n nut?
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6th Oct 10 at 19:28   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
dont have any suitable bits left for my dremel

still none of the suggestion are attracting me more then the jack on the spanner which worked a treat
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6th Oct 10 at 19:29   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Just get something long and a bit softer than steel, and beat the hell out of it
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you telling him to have a wank?
ShEp
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6th Oct 10 at 19:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Spanner pointing downward.

Ring end on the nut.

hook the ring end of another spanner round the open end for more leverage.

And use all your scrawny force
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6th Oct 10 at 19:44   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
tried that still too tight

couldnt get the car high enough to apply proper force
cunningham
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heat always works or air tools
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6th Oct 10 at 19:48   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
if you cant get a socket on there you wont be getting any air tools lol
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Remove the exhaust you dinugs and go form that side with a bar.
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6th Oct 10 at 19:50   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
why bother when this method was quicker and easier
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6th Oct 10 at 19:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
also if you read the thread you would note that the other side is equally as awkward with the petrol tank being in the way, or are you suggesting i remove the exhaust and petrol tank just to get these bolts off
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You'd have shit a brick if those ring 12 point spanners sliped though!

Had a hard time with some 27mm wheel bolts on an old school rangerover and I had to do the same thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlMc9sZO028
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6th Oct 10 at 19:54   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
haha awesome
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Jerry can of petrol & a match - problem solved.
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quote:
Originally posted by SportBoy
you telling him to have a wank?


Yeah it's great for clearing your mind
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6th Oct 10 at 20:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
looks easy...

bit of penetrating oil whilst looking out tools

a bit of heat on it if you are a weed.

brute force. Looks to be plenty of room to get a decent length implament on the spanner to multiply the force
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6th Oct 10 at 20:03   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
nah done it until the other spanner was bending about to snap!

dint have room to get under the car to properly pull on it could only do it from the side
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oil? heat?
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6th Oct 10 at 20:05   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
or jack lol, put a load of wd40 on them
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also - tried to 'free' it by going the other way?

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