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Frozen nuts ..and bolts make for a tiresome monday See below |
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Nothing worse than doing alot of ,mechanical work on a car to gain access to a part... In this case a Toyota rav4... And the genius engineers at Toyota decided to literally shove the upper radiator hose right next to it. So I have to use an opened ended wrench to extract the alternator bolt... And yeah it started to round off.. Completely frozen that bolt is..I removed the rad hose and got a ratchet on it with a brakerbar.. And rounded it off a lil more So instead of me simply getting out the bolts like in the vid.. I most likely will now have to take it to a shop.. A repair that normally I could do...Will now probably cost 600 dollars. And yes I tried heating it up with my mini jewellers torch..put pb blaster penetrant on it.. My main thing is the bolt now is really rounding off
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Try a strap wrench or small chain wrench.
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If you can find a small enough one to grab onto the bolt head you might get lucky
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OH OH OH, mini pipe wrench might grab it I mean the bold head is already messed up so you don't have much to loose
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7/31/2023 6:18 am |
buy a nut splitter comes in handy to split and crack rusted nuts off the bolt. My ex taught me that
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Depending on what you can fit in there, a pipe wrench or vice grips with a long length of galvanized pipe for leverage.
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