Michael,

I too have never had a, or the proper gland nut tool at my disposal. The only thing I ever did buy was from IPD and well, it was less then useful.

With this current car, I'm attempting to take my time and do things slowly.

Therefore I'm just using a large set of channel locks to get the gland nut off, but before that I've heated them and sprayed generous amounts of PB Blaster on said threads. The driver side one loosened up within about an hour. The passenger side played hard to get so I had to play with it longer, like about 5 hours or so. I attempted to get a pipe wrench in there, but I just couldn't so I slowed down, sprayed, heated, worked on other things, rinse, repeat, till finally late in the day last weekend it decide to play with me and it moved. Once that happened it was all over and I was finally in business.

So any ways, there you have it. I don't want to remove the thing from the vehicle, I don't want to bleed the brakes, though they do need new/clean fluid, I just want to replace it while it is in the vehicle, thus the need for the "special" tool that Art created.

Thanks again to all for responding.

Matt
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