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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? :) |
I went looking for a better picture of a cheater pipe, but apparently DuckDuckGo is censoring the results.
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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. |
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. |
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? :) |
Curse words is another way to add torque!
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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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