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Nut Splitter

posted by  Musician on  Fri Oct 17 15:24 CST 2014
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Here is what I am contending with. Again, this is on a Jeep Wrangler, *not* a Volvo. (Though the aerodynamics of the two make them rather kindred in spirit...)

The control arm bracket has a lip to reinforce it. This prevents me from getting anything in there to spin off the nut. The nut splitter broke on the first try, as this is metric grade 10.9 hardness and 21mm of raw manliness in its rusted on size.

I cannot get a Dremel in there, I cannot get a hacksaw or my Makita angle grinder in there nor can I get them between the bushing and the bracket. If I could bust the nut off I could bend the bracket out just enough to get something up in there to cut through the bolt. (Most of the others had to have something similar to them for removal.)

I am really getting ticked about this final nut and its now-headless and severely seized bolt. If I could simply get the nut off and cut the bolt flush with the outside of the bracket I could get this out.

Close up of nut and minor damage done by junk quality nut splitter tool.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/periphery/IMG_2386_zpsbb676dcd.jpg

Close up of how tight the bushing is against the bracket.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/periphery/IMG_2388_zps071eef45.jpg

View of the work area.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/periphery/IMG_2387_zps3fc8939b.jpg

Another view so you can see how the raised lip interferes with a cutting tool.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/periphery/IMG_2385_zps0acbcedb.jpg

The nut splitter that failed on the first try. 21mm grade 10.9 nuts are hard to split...
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/periphery/IMG_2384_zps9fcc0721.jpg

Wade

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