Rear Brakes help!
#16
Race Car
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Updated profiles!! ...I love it. ![Cheers](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/beerchug.gif)
Just kidding, thanks - now we know we're talking to a Texan and a Canadian.![Big Grin](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
ANOTHER method I've used is to take a chisel and tap on it as to rotate the allen bolt, but that is one of the last resorts as it tends to ruin the head. These are SERIOUS bolts, I wound up having to drill straight through one and insert a punch to get torque on it...it eventually broke loose.![grr](https://rennlist.com/forums/graemlins/cussing.gif)
It was one of the allen bolts holding the front shocks onto the spindle/wheel carrier.
You can pound the center of the allen hole, but you will concentrate more "punch" with a punch...also, you won't stand the chance of boogering up your allen socket.![Wink](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Be patient, you don't want to ruin anything...but I guess the most you may screw up is a caliper, and they're not that bad used.
![Cheers](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/beerchug.gif)
Just kidding, thanks - now we know we're talking to a Texan and a Canadian.
![Big Grin](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
ANOTHER method I've used is to take a chisel and tap on it as to rotate the allen bolt, but that is one of the last resorts as it tends to ruin the head. These are SERIOUS bolts, I wound up having to drill straight through one and insert a punch to get torque on it...it eventually broke loose.
![grr](https://rennlist.com/forums/graemlins/cussing.gif)
It was one of the allen bolts holding the front shocks onto the spindle/wheel carrier.
You can pound the center of the allen hole, but you will concentrate more "punch" with a punch...also, you won't stand the chance of boogering up your allen socket.
![Wink](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif)
Be patient, you don't want to ruin anything...but I guess the most you may screw up is a caliper, and they're not that bad used.
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#17
Drifting
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Success!!! I was able to remove the lower bolt.
I put a 6 points 10mm wrench through the hex socket and applied pressure as I used the impact wrench on the hex socket. See picture.
With one impact wrench hit. The bolt came loose.
Just as I suspected, the lenght of the 10mm allen head socket twisted under the impact wrench and not transfering the force of the impact wrench to the bolt.
I could also have used this technique to remove the strut bolts.
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anthony
I put a 6 points 10mm wrench through the hex socket and applied pressure as I used the impact wrench on the hex socket. See picture.
With one impact wrench hit. The bolt came loose.
Just as I suspected, the lenght of the 10mm allen head socket twisted under the impact wrench and not transfering the force of the impact wrench to the bolt.
I could also have used this technique to remove the strut bolts.
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anthony
#18
Race Car
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What you have effectively done is taken up the "slop" that an impact gun situation doesn't work well in. IN other words, if you use say a regular 19mm socket to remove a seized lugnut, it may not budge because the thin walls and tolerances of the socket when compared to the lug nut aren't too exact - so the impact may not work.
NOW...throw on an IMPACT socket and wallah!
Same issue with your wrench on the allen wrench shaft, coupled with a few good knocks of an impact, you took up the loose tolerance of said allen key and the impact hit was efficient enough to do the job.![Cheers](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/beerchug.gif)
Now make sure you use copper anti-seize on those threads during reassembly.
NOW...throw on an IMPACT socket and wallah!
Same issue with your wrench on the allen wrench shaft, coupled with a few good knocks of an impact, you took up the loose tolerance of said allen key and the impact hit was efficient enough to do the job.
![Cheers](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/beerchug.gif)
Now make sure you use copper anti-seize on those threads during reassembly.
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Right on money re WD40 (W ater D esolvant 40...th attempt) The correct tools are expensive but they work. We used a 10 mm hex and needed a breaker on the bottom bolt last night to crack it. (broken retainer spring at r/r wheel e-brake shoe) The set came from Mac Tools at 150 usd but did the trick. Best of luck.