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

[ashleysnep]

:bang::bang: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! :bang::bang:

 

[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.eu/VWP-onlinestore/brakepipe/photo/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'.