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1993 Ball joint bolt to strut assembly broke off ! Update. 200

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posted by  Art Benstein on  Sat Dec 3 13:19 CST 2005
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I agree with you about heating the gland nut. I've never needed to even think about resorting to that.

You'll find me a staunch advocate of impact, when it comes to loosening fasteners. The slow brute strength approach requires an immobile counterhold, something that is only an ideal, never reality.

Instead of pipe wrenches, I use a single spanner from a $10 Harbor Freight set of four. To use it with impact, I apply the two-pound maul to its handle. So far I've had great luck, but I expect someday I will run into those castellated gland nuts (from whatever brand?) and need to dig out a pipe wrench.

Problem with a pipe wrench, is a good one has a spring that sets its jaws, requiring a portion of the rotation to reach the maximum travel. Impact won't work with these "inertia absorbers" between the force and the objective.

So I can't offer you much help based on been-there-done-that with a pipe wrench.




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Art Benstein near Baltimore

"Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get."






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