SON of a B1TC%^&^%&$#^%@$%h.

[joshua43214]

Put the box end of a wrench on the bolt, hook the box end of the next bigger wrench over the open end of the first wrench. be careful to keep every thing in alignment, now you have a double length box wrench.

P.S. I broke a 21mm MadeInTaiwan wrench this way once.

[azale]

Sorry Tiger but i gotta disagree with you there, i snap those like toothpicks.

And then he eats the pieces with his frosted flakes.

ProZak, is the light shimmy gone now that you have replaced the one rotor?

You already know this but . . . invest in some WD40.
and then get an impact wrench
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It's a requirement for working on 12 year old rusty bolts in MI. I'm sure you will convert soon.

[Bill R.]

snapon guy knew exactly what i'd done when he saw it but warrantied it anyway.

Put the box end of a wrench on the bolt, hook the box end of the next bigger wrench over the open end of the first wrench. be careful to keep every thing in alignment, now you have a double length box wrench.

P.S. I broke a 21mm MadeInTaiwan wrench this way once.

[joshua43214]

snapon guy knew exactly what i'd done when he saw it but warrantied it anyway.

Nice!

All my bigger Snap On wrenchs have marks from doing this but I have never managed to break one. This is my prefered method of loosening bolts in the morning when I dont want to listen to impact wrench's. I abuse my extensions the same way by sliding a socket up the handle of my ratchets. I still have my entire set of Flank Drive Plus wrench's that I purchased when they first came out minus the 10mm that I keep spares of since I manage to lose it so much.

[Bill R.]

love... i bought them in 1974 and my favorite one the 8mm X 10mm is finally getting worn out on the 10mm end...unfortunately snap on stopped making these many years ago and the only replacements they have are flat handled... bummer. I have to admit snap on's quality is unsurpassed by any other tool maker who's tools i use... but if i were to start over today i probably wouldn't buy a fraction of the snap on tools i bought then. Too many other brands offer quality fairly close to snap on and since the flank drive is no longer snap on's exclusive i would probably own a lot more of other tools..

Nice!

All my bigger Snap On wrenchs have marks from doing this but I have never managed to break one. This is my prefered method of loosening bolts in the morning when I dont want to listen to impact wrench's. I abuse my extensions the same way by sliding a socket up the handle of my ratchets. I still have my entire set of Flank Drive Plus wrench's that I purchased when they first came out minus the 10mm that I keep spares of since I manage to lose it so much.

[Ross]

Find yourself an old motorcycle fork tube! It will fit over you breaker bar gives a ton of extra leverage and is CHROME!

[Robin-535im]

FWIW: PB Blaster usually works better than WD-40 or Liquid Wrench. Don't sniff it though... you can feel the brain cells dying by the thousands when you do.

[Tiger]

4 feet extension? Boy are you a weaklin! Well, I am not you as a pro mechanic... I owned mine for nearly 14 years or so now... I never broke mine.

You are handy with mig welder... why niot weld that sucker in position you wanted. You know this will take even more abuse than that ratchet you are using now... but then again, you wanted ratcheting part.

[BillionPa]

ineed, get PB and fricken saturate those bolts, on the hour every hour for a day!

well, you get the point, no need for an impact wrench, but i did need to use an axe to get my rear carriers off, by hitting the wrench with it when it was hanging down.

i actually had to use the axe a lot on the rear, seams that nothing was done back there in 12 years time!

oh! also get 5 or 6 cans of non chlorinated brake cleaner.

[ProZak]

Great stuff, you guys. I stopped at NAPA on the way home and bought a ... thingie. 1/4-inch, no ratchet, about 24 inches long. Breaker bar / flex something or other, whatever. Solid steel.

We'll see if that does it. Thanks for the moral support!!

(FWIW, I love everything else about these brake assemblies - simple, effective, robust. I'm not mad at the engineers or manufacturer, just the crudded up bolt.)