upthesharks

is it bad when they say "hi Jason" whenever I walk into HF?

i bought the hex socket set from HF and was using with extension bar and torque wrench. I tried tapping the socket into the bolt with a hammer. It slipped and that's when I logged in here and posted. I don't "need" to do my CV joints yet but I had the muffler out etc.

i am going to put it back together and try another time.

until then, I'm off to HF.

thanks for the direction.

upthesharks

Thanks. went to HF and she had no clue what i was talking about. i looked thoroughly too. after reading this thread again, i went back to Bentley's book, 101 book, factory manuals...... no one mentions triple square. i have been around cars my whole life with dad and such and i had not heard this terminology or of this tool before. maybe called something different in Australia. THANK YOU FOR THE RIGHT INFO!

TNT63Falcon

Amazon was my friend, when looking for them.

5CHN3LL

If you have a welder and the correct size nut, you can also try welding the nut onto the end of the bolt; if you do a decent job, it's even reusable*. Even a crappy HF welder that M3 thinks is a POS will do the trick.

*Reusable, but probably no longer tempered correctly...

5CHN3LL

Triple-square, security Torx, double-square, torque-to-yield...and then, of course, the joy of owning both SAE and metric-based cars...

Imo000

It should be in the same section as the allan keys. I'm surprised they don't have it. Got mine at the Canadian version of HF called Priness Auto.

Slakker

Auto zone had triple square.