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Oh, no, no... I am cutting the bolt out. I have already cut off the head.
This is in so tightly AND rusted that when I get the nut cut off it will likely sound like a gunshot. There is zero clearance to get tools in where I need to be. No way a Dremel will work. I have been trying this for two weeks.
I am hacking this bolt out bit by bit, and now that the head is off, getting rid of the nut will allow me to bend my control arm bracket enough to stick my Makita angle grinder between the sleeve and the bracket, cutting the bolt directly. The sleeve is nearly a quarter inch thick and grade 8, so with a M14 bolt and a sleeve that adds close to another half inch to the OD you can see why I do not want to destroy my Makita removing it. I just want it out. I do not want it to start costing me power tools, too.
I used nut splitters in construction years ago, and they work like a miracle in certain circumstances, but they have to be well made. It is a case of well made or junk, with little gray between the extremes, with this particular tool.
I can only find Snap-On. I have no tool truck route of any brand within 150 miles of me, and I need this off soon. Ordering from Snap-On is costly and takes forever sometimes.
Matco makes a good one, but only as a part of a set that is costly. I just need the one. It needs to have adequate hardness to snap a grade 8 bolt that is close to 7/8" and still work properly afterwards. The one I have has badly damaged threads after a single use.
Good tools are becoming harder to find every year, it seems...
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Mama always told me to eschew obfuscation...
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