Strut Bearing/Shaft Problem

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

heh... this may be a good excuse to con(vince) the old lady that I need an 
air compressor. 

On 4/28/05, Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net> wrote: 
> 
> 
> Back in the Hand-Tool-Era before I got air tooled, I used one of those 
> offset
> 22mm wrenches -but- here's the trick to getting it to fit properly. I
> used a grinder to notch out the back inner edge so it would fit down into
> the top of the bearing recess. Then I could use the allen key or small 
> second
> wrench to hold the strut shaft itself and keep it from spinning. What you
> do from there after is obvious.
> 
> ==Brett
> 
> 
> At 8:49 AM -0400 4/28/05, Chris Bennett wrote:
> >I am sure this has been beat to death a million times by now... Sorry,
> >but can someone point me in the right direction for the tool needed to
> >remove the nut from the top of the strut tower?!? It's maddening... a
> >22mm socket fits in there perfectly but you can't imobilize the
> >shaft... an offset wrench ALMOST fits but not quite...
> >
> >AND YES... I have SPRING COMPRESSORS... LOL I have been to Sears,
> >every other tool place in town and I tell them this is for a Scirocco
> >and I get the blank stare, nobody knows what a Scirocco is but they
> >want to sell me a spring compressor for one!!!
> >
> >I am waiting for the SNAP-ON dude to call me back. He's pretty sure
> >that they make one, but he doesn't know if he has it.
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >Chris
> 



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