"jariten1781" (jariten1781)
04/12/2014 at 22:09 • Filed to: None
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"jariten1781" (jariten1781)
04/12/2014 at 22:09 • Filed to: None | 0
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But I was not letting that carrier bolt defeat me.
Three of them were pains in the ass, but no more than 10 minutes a piece...but the passenger side lower one would not break. Two hours of heat, mallets, PB Blaster, and bruised palms till I ghetto rigged this torque machine. Finally success.
Need to buy a lift...
CalzoneGolem
> jariten1781
04/12/2014 at 22:13 |
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Wow, just think about the torques you could apply to the bolt with a lift. Probably many of them.
Arben72
> jariten1781
04/12/2014 at 22:20 |
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I had to do that to get my rear dif drain plug out. It lifted the car about a inch for it to finally come out.
Burt
> jariten1781
04/12/2014 at 22:23 |
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Well played. I once helped perform a sway bar installation involving a piece of wood and a c clamp, that if something went wrong would have probably led to severe disfiguring or death, so I won't chide you for your fix. How did the wrench hold up to that?
PS9
> jariten1781
04/12/2014 at 22:27 |
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Hours?
You know nothing of the struggle between bolts and men. I spend 5 DAYS unsticking a stuck diff bolt so's I could do the rear axle seals. That fucking bolt was not going to win, and it finally relented on the last day.
The next foe was a suspension bolt, whos sole intention was to allow Poseidon's forces to drown me in a river of summer rains. We clashed on the eve of fall as the horrible sea god's scouts looked on and gathered their forces in the sky. The clouds boiled and rolled as I applied all the torque a human could summon. Still, the bolt would not relent. Even as I used mans most advanced of technologies (a cutoff tool) to dismember him, still even in remains, the bolt would not relent. Upon the final hour, with the skies turned grey and growling with posiedon's anger, I dislodge the bolt corpse from the shock strut and, much to his chagrin as he looked on from tartarus, completed the job before a single drop of the sea god's water could hit me. 'VICTORY!' I screamed at the skies, right as a tornado destroyed my house. Petty revenge.
Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
> PS9
04/12/2014 at 22:33 |
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I stubbed my pinkie toe once. On a door. It hurt really bad.
tromoly
> PS9
04/12/2014 at 22:34 |
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I want to hire you to narrate every thing I do in this manner.
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jariten1781
> PS9
04/12/2014 at 22:35 |
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Haha...I've had much worse...but never a fucking carrier bolt turning what should have been a hour or so brake job on a <5 year old car into a half day mess. I would have drilled it out but I couldn't get an angle with the drill...
wontacceptthis
> PS9
04/12/2014 at 22:36 |
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To get a bed bolt out of my ranger, I broke not one, but two tools before I got it right. I ended up putting a 6ft long pipe on a breaker bar and pushing through it with all of my might.
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jariten1781
> Burt
04/12/2014 at 22:38 |
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Seems alright, little bit deflected by the box end, but not too bad. Probably won't use that one as a pry tool again.
JACU - I've got bonifides.
> jariten1781
04/12/2014 at 22:56 |
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NWAForester
> jariten1781
04/12/2014 at 23:37 |
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Hahaha, Ive had to do that for an axle bolt that was *supposed* to only be finger tight.....Im lucky the new axel, replaced by a "reputable import shop", started to fail so soon, leaving it that tight would have destroyed the wheel bearing. That was a hell of a day to get that axel out!!!
awe46m3zcp
> jariten1781
04/13/2014 at 10:53 |
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I had a similar fight with a crank pulley bolt on a Civic once (turns out Honda doesn't really want you to change the timing belt). I broke a Craftsman 3/4" breaker bar using a piece of pipe on the end, and a jack to lift. At one point before the snap it supported the weight of the front of the car. Nothing more frustrating than being a couple of hours into a project and a bolt stopping all progress. I spent probably 5 hrs (including a trip to Sears for a new breaker bar) trying to get that damn bolt out.
DarrenMR
> jariten1781
04/13/2014 at 17:25 |
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When I put coilovers on my miata, the front driverside shock was attached to the car. The bottom bolt was fused to the sleeve, was fused to the rubber bushing, was fused to the shock itself. Many days.