How do you extend wrenches for more torque?

[Xist]

There is the classic double-wrench:


Like with a socket wrench, you can put a pipe over a normal wrench, you just need a larger pipe:

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:


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]

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

[Xist]

Google just wanted to show me pipe wrenches.

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

Cheater wrench!


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!


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]

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]

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]

Curse words is another way to add torque!

[Piotrsko]

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.