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Xist 07-20-2022 01:01 PM

How do you extend wrenches for more torque?
 
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There is the classic double-wrench:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1658335898

Like with a socket wrench, you can put a pipe over a normal wrench, you just need a larger pipe:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1658335990
Apparently that is a "ratchet wrench," which must be an idiot's name for a socket wrench.

I have ratchet wrenches. They are wrenches with little ratchets in them. They are fantastic!

There are also wrench extenders:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1658336288

I was watching Project Farm while looking for yet another recliner for my brother and realized that he was putting allen wrenches in the closed end of his wrench!
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1658336288

How much does a large allen wrench set cost? :)

freebeard 07-20-2022 02:00 PM

I went looking for a better picture of a cheater pipe, but apparently DuckDuckGo is censoring the results.

Xist 07-20-2022 02:17 PM

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Google just wanted to show me pipe wrenches.

Does anyone want to try Bing, the MySpace of search engines? :)

Cheater wrench!
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1658340405

That looks like what you would find embedded in your driver's seat after your ex uses it to smash every window and body panel.

I think this is recent! :)
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1658340547

Why is the first one only using one hand?

Why is he wearing a wedding ring around machinery?

Someone here once suggested buying a 10' pipe, leaving the stickers on it, and returning it after I finish.

I bent my solid-steel digging bar. I would probably bend a pipe.

I once saw a gallery of a guy removing a bolt with an earthmover. He tried double wrenches. I don't know if the cheater bar was the last step, but they lowered an excavator bucket on it.

redpoint5 07-20-2022 02:19 PM

Only time I needed more than a breaker bar was to remove the bolt holding the pulley on my engine in the Acura. I used the pipe from the jack handle to extend the breaker bar several feet, then I hopped on the end until a loud bang occurred. Apparently that was the happy noise of the bolt loosening.

I put an aluminum underdrive pulley on, then snuged back up to spec, which was hundreds less ft/lbs than it took to loosen.

Xist 07-20-2022 02:25 PM

I have a picture somewhere of using the handle of one floor jack and my other floor jack to remove the crank shaft pulley bolt in my Accord.

I also could have propped it against the ground, put a jack under the car, removed the stands, lowered the car, and allowed the vehicle weight to break it loose.

Three thousand pounds on a breaker bar should be enough, right? :)

jakobnev 07-20-2022 02:38 PM

Curse words is another way to add torque!

Piotrsko 07-21-2022 10:58 AM

I dunno, I have a 6ft length of schedule 160 1 1/2" iron pipe for loosening the axle nuts on new to me bugs, a 3ft 1" drive cheater bar and 36mm deep socket. Sometines you need a torch or grinder. As an FYI: sears 1/2 breaker bars self destruct right around 250 lb ft.

The issue with lowering the car is destroying the engine mounts.


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