Trouble getting the front strut nuts off

[koabi at seeohdee.com (Koabi Brooks)]

This may not help you, but I just did this the other day.  I used a cheapo
electric impact gun I got a while back from harbor freight to get the nuts
off.  

You may be able to get an o2 sensor socket, put a wrench on it (the base of
an o2 socket is hex so you can do that, then put your allen wrench through
and use a cheater bar on it.  I actually widened out a part of the "channel"
in the o2 socket so I could put the allen wrench in so the long end sticks
out the side (as opposed to the short end sticking out the top).

Hth,
koabi

-----Original Message-----
From: darren24@mango.spoonohost.com [mailto:darren24@mango.spoonohost.com]
On Behalf Of Jacob Hawes
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:22 PM
To: Scirocco-L
Subject: Trouble getting the front strut nuts off

Inclination finally hit. For some reason I feel like tackling the front 
suspension that has been one of three known things I need to get done to 
get it on the road. I autozone borrowed the spring compressors and I got 
my struts a while ago. So now the problem hits. I can't seem to get the 
nut off. The new struts have the allen wrench top like the book 
describes, but the current ones, nooo, they have to have a big wide 
flathead slot that originally had blue (silicon?) filler in it. How do I 
get the nut off? Most flat head bits are rounded on the sides instead of 
flat so they just slip out, and my dads harbor freight drill broke the 
chuck off trying to fight it (no great loss, but we are down one drill).

If all else fails I can probably go down to a friends shop and see how 
much he will charge to break the nuts off since that should be my only 
problem. but I would like to exhaust the other three steps first (force, 
heat, chemicals)

Actually make that four known things to get it running. The rear brakes, 
front suspension, battery, and brake cables.

-- 
	--Jacob Hawes
Cars:
	'80 Scirocco mk1 searching for a name
Sharp pointy things:
	18" HI Kobra "pillow knife"
	17.5" HI Ang Khola Villager "camp axe"
	~48" Custom XVII longsword. unnamed


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