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holy crap stuck rachet box wrench on fan what to do????????? 200

posted by  someone claiming to be carowner on  Sun Oct 25 04:32 CST 2009 [RELATED]

Hello!

I got my rachet box wrench stuck on one of the 10mm nuts that you take off to get the fan off. Now I cannot get the wrench or the nut out, and I cannot tighten it back on cause it's a rachet!

As I was ratcheting it out, I was thinking you know this probably won't clear because the wrench was pretty much full thickness to get it on.

For some reason I thought that I was going to be able to just screw the nut back on if it did not clear, but of course I cannot because it is a rachet!

I don't know what to do, I just killed the car I cannot get a grinder in there to get either the wrench or the stud.

The only thing I can think of is to go buy a hacksaw and cut the stud off.

Is there any way I can take that fan apart from the radiator side?

There are some bolts on that side but they only seem to be for the fins.





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