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Your Help Needed! Unable to Loosen/Remove 4 Bolts connecting Transmission to Driveshaft 200 1988

I'm trying to remove 4 bolts (15mm) that hold the front of the driveshaft to the transmission. However, the yoke is so wide that I can't fit a socket, flare nut wrench, or ratcheting wrench. At best, I can get a socket on, but it won't align properly and is starting to round off a bolt head.

This photo is similar to my situation,

http://www.merkurtech.com/merkurtech...t5shaft004.jpg

In the photo, the target nut/bolt is in the 2 O'clock position, the protruding yoke is in the 4 O'clock position. However, this photo doesn't show how the yoke is so wide that it blocks the tools I tried.

The thickness of the tool at the 15mm end must be less than 10mm, because my 10mm flare nut and ratcheting wrenches won't fit in at all.

An open-end wrench fits, but I need one with 4 contact sides, because those driveshaft bolts were installed in 1988 at 37 ft-lbs and I don't want to round the heads off (already beginning, so I'm taking a break and asking for help.

This Capri tool has only two contact surfaces, so I don't think it would be okay to use:

https://capritools.com/product-categ...nd-wrench-set/








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    Your Help Needed! Unable to Loosen/Remove 4 Bolts connecting Transmission to Driveshaft 200 1988

    Be sure you're using the right sized tools. All the propeller shaft hardware in my 240's drive line is UNF using inch-sized wrenches.
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    Art Benstein near Baltimore

    'I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't.'
    James Holt McGavran








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      Your Help Needed! Unable to Loosen/Remove 4 Bolts connecting Transmission to Driveshaft 200 1988

      I could not find the link for photos but in any case don't really understand the problem. I've removed driveshafts from dozens 240 Volvos and have never used any of the tools the OP mentioned. What is needed are two box end longish (10-12 inches or so) wrenches of the proper size. If Art's Volvos are earlier models the wrenches would indeed be fractional - later cars have metric hardware - and the sizes needed changed over the years with the metric bolts/nuts. Most of the time the "squeeze the two wrenches together" technique works but when they are too tight here's what I do. I rotate the driveshaft so the head of the bolt (the head should be facing the front of the car if installed correctly) over to the passenger side so the holding wrench end will jam against the floor or the exhaust and then with the second box wrench installed on the nut at an angle that will allow me to get under it and use my "mass" to push the wrench upward (counter-clockwise). Keep your palms open to protect the knuckles. You can use the same technique on the driver's side to tighten the nuts on re-installation. A pair of good fitting 12 point box ends will suffice but if a 6 point is available and offers a workable angle so much the better. - Dave







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