[Shop-talk] Ford Explorer Brake Line Repair

[Scott]

On 8/6/2012 10:58 AM, John Miller wrote:
> If a good tube-nut wrench is unobtanium where you're at...I won't 
> recommend this for everyone, but I've had very good luck with 
> vise-grips (preferably the kind with concave jaws) on tube nuts.
>
> You will probably mangle the hex on the nut a bit this way, but it's 
> important NOT to squeeze them down on the nut so tightly that it 
> crushes the nut on the tube or deforms the nut where it seats on the tube.

Man, I wish I was one of those guys that could remove something with 
Vice Grips and re-use it. By the time I have to use Vice Grips on a nut, 
I can get it off...but Vice Grips will be the only tool you could ever 
use to get the thing back on after that. And even that's iffy after I'm 
done with it.