Kim fowarded this to me from the Z list. Great shop tip!
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From: Carl Beck [mailto:beck@becksystems.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 12:05 PM
To: SmokyYaro@aol.com; z-car@taex001.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: <L6>Re: Removing frozen brake line nuts, was brake pipes
>At 11:51 AM -0500 10/24/2001, SmokyYaro@aol.com wrote:
>If a brake line wont come off easily, stop and try my plan "B." Cut the end
>off the cheap 10mm line wrench (which always seems to fit poorly and spread
>when torque is applied to it and use this flexibility to your advantage).
>
>Slide the now cut off wrench into place with the "open" end facing towards
>you. Using an appropriately sized curved jawed vice grip, clamp SQUARELY
>onto the line wrench end. Judicious application of vice grip force will
>close the wrench just enough to act a perfectly sized adapter for the vice
>grip. The additional leverage of the vice grip loosens even the most
>stubborn line ends.
>
>Cutting off the wrench is not necessary if you have room around the brake
>line to fit both the line wrench and the vice grip over the line wrench.
>
>This doubles the "handles" one has to transfer twisting torque to the
fitting
>and removes them everytime. Well, almost everytime, the other day I
actually
>sheared the end off flush with the valve. The good news was that the now
>sheared off end was still in good "shape". :) Vice Grip will probably read
>this and make a million or two with it!
DARN... and I threw out all my cheap line wrenches! Well back to Sears...
Sounds like a great shop tip Kim.
I don't know if Vice Grip will make any money on this - but it does open the
door for a good machinist to come up with a whole line of "adaptors" for use
in this manor. You could take cheap deep well sockets, slice them into
three or four parts, put a cut in them so they would compress and volia! a
Vice Grip adaptor for just about any size nut or bolt.;-)
FWIW,
Carl
Carl Beck
Clearwater,FL USA
IZCC #260
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