elbeee964

What Steve said,

That satisfaction feeling's hard to understand till you've slayed that dragon. Pop back in with a report on your first post-'little' caliper drive. (Figure you've got some brake bleeding to do now...) Congrats.

pete000

Caliper and the lower shock bolts were the hardest bolts I have ever had to crack loose in my life. ! and I have cracked a lot including some nasty 50 year old Rusty VW bolts !

Oracle

I have on my list the same project very very soon (I have all the parts, I just need time) and this made me think the following.
With the appropriate hex long 10 mm (left in the picture above) can't I just use an impact wrench? (I don't see the shop spraying and waiting for days...)

jimq

it wont fit

Indycam

(I don't see the shop spraying and waiting for days...)
Put a drop of liquid wrench on now , wait a few days , put another drop on , repeat until the day you take it in .

Gelignite

Here is a picture of what I used for the bottom bolt. I was able to use a simple hex socket for the top one. Still with the extension bar though! The 10mm hex bar is an allen key with the end cut off and the extension bar is an old tent pole. This allowed me to clear the suspension arm and lever from underneath. The universal joint is just because it was the perfect length. I'll post a post drive report when I've bled the system but this won't be for a couple of days.

MisterRisky

Fantastic! Good job on getting them off.

Every time someone posts about how hard the lower shock bolts are to get off I am going to start responding with, simply, GTBO: Grind those bitches off. The bolts on the calipers are much harder since you can't simply grind the heads off.

Lonnie: don't be so sparing with your use of the blue wrench. Geeeesh.

elbeee964

ok -- don't know what you're talking about when you go all 'code talker'.

blue wrench? (Me? I've been somewhat quiet, lately. Just don't go teaking on me.) Getting ready for the big VIR soiree this weekend. And my elbow tendon's flarin'.

MisterRisky

Blue Wrench:

flatsixcrazy

So, does anyone knows how the "shops" takes them off?. What do they normally used?.

MisterRisky

I bet they use something like this... but maybe with a cheater bar on the end: