How to get this nut off!!!! :bang:

[mischa]

As title says, it just threading no matter what i do its just that tight!

Also if it dose thread to much how the hell do you replace it, more importantly can you?

THIS IS REALLY ****ING ME OFF!

[88GreenVN]

Not easy - stilsins (spelling) plumbers use em - but that can chew up the nut real bad.

Probably cant use a hammer to tap around it either.....

Dunno

[Pimpn1]

have u tired wd40 spray? can u get a smaller spanner on there?

[Pub247]

yep they can be a pita espesiacally down at the caliper. soak it in wd40 or like and let it sit for a while and try again. If your keen and recon you can do it without damaging anything try heating up the m/c metal around the thread, the alloy will expand quickly making the bolt somewhat looser we use this trick at work alot espicially makes getting broken manifold studs and the like out easy

[Cheap6]

Wait 'til tomorrow and buy one of these:

http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.e...to/104365a.jpg

(So you know what to ask for, it's a brake pipe spanner - funnily enough)

or try using one of these, on the flats of the nut with the adjustment wound as tight as you can while still being able to close them past the locking point:

Vise-Grip 4pce Set. #428GS

If you butcher the nut (and/or pipe) replacement of the line and nuts will be required. Any specialist brake shop will be able to make one up if you give them the old pipe to match. If you have to do that, it should be done in steel not Copper and the lines bent to fit around a cylinder - old accessory drive pulleys work - or with a(nother) special tool, not in free air. Best to avoid it though.

[Pub247]

Yeah those spanners are real handy... if you got one. Vice grips are good but id only use them as a last resort as it usually ends up chewing the **** out of whatever your trying to get out

[Morton]

Yeah open ended round end spanners are win. They're so handy. Good for p/s hoses too.

If all else fails, use an imperial spanner that's just a bit too small, and get that on there.

[markovr]

Try taping on the nut side on to free up the stuff that is locking the thread then if you have no hex left use vice grips but make it tight so the nut will turn before the vicegrip slips and scores the nut totally.

[Zuicider]

Try taping on the nut side on to free up the stuff that is locking the thread then if you have no hex left use vice grips but make it tight so the nut will turn before the vicegrip slips and scores the nut totally.

vice grips straight up doesnt round it i use it for all those lil bastards

[needwork2-4fillhabbit]

Yep thats how i got my rear brakes off on the diff, then did it again last weekend on the cylinder saves stripping the 'nut'.

[mischa]

Vice grips done the job.

[Cane_It]

brake pipe spanners for the win, 10mm, 12mm and 13mm i think?

[stocky]

i believe the big one is 13mm, and the smaller one is 10mm

[STEALTHY™]

Am i the only sick bastard who read the title as how do you get your nut off?

[Emackulation]

Am i the only sick bastard who read the title as how do you get your nut off?

Even I didnt read it that way....that must be telling you something.

[dufus]

Am i the only sick bastard who read the title as how do you get your nut off?

No your not the only one

[STEALTHY™]

Even I didnt read it that way....that must be telling you something.

OMG its happening, your maturing!

It was bound to happen eventually

[Morton]

And not a day too soon if you ask me

[centy]

the correct name for the spanner shown in the pics is flare nut spanner.
used a lot in aircon, brakes and small hydraulics as it can grab around the pipe.
another way if you can get the other end off is to put a ring spanner over the other end of the pipe and follow the pipe up till you are at the nut.

[Morton]

I know a bloke who did that centy, and then used the same ring spanner to tighten the hose fittings again when he was done.

Can you see where he went wrong?

[centy]

lol yep it was still on the tube.
most of the time it's only one fitting that is a biatch so it works.

[STEALTHY™]

I know a bloke who did that centy, and then used the same ring spanner to tighten the hose fittings again when he was done.

Can you see where he went wrong?

Didn't go wrong at all. Duct tape the spanner to the strut or something else, and save it for next time!

[Cheap6]

another way if you can get the other end off is to put a ring spanner over the other end of the pipe and follow the pipe up till you are at the nut.

Isn't that the pipe for the rear brakes? Following that back up to the master cylinder would be lots of fun .

[Swordsy]

Didn't go wrong at all. Duct tape the spanner to the strut or something else, and save it for next time!

You would go through a few spanners.
WD-40 and a nice tap to jar the thread, that should do it

[STEALTHY™]

You would go through a few spanners.
WD-40 and a nice tap to jar the thread, that should do it

Only one spanner you'd think! Its not like theres hundreds of those types of connections in an engine bay!