[T3] 46mm Wrench to Loan?

[Jacob Adam Schroeder]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 11 Nov 2015 at 6:45, Jacob Adam Schroeder wrote:
>
> > What I did was took the upper HE to my mechanic, who placed it in a
> > vice and used a socket on a big air impact driver to break it loose.  It
> > took him about one second with that.  After getting the nut broke loose,
> I
> > sand blasted and ceramic-coated the upper HE and it looks good as new.
>
> Did he do this cold? If so, maybe I need to try that next time.
>
>
Yes, he did it cold and it came right off.  I felt so silly because it
literally took me longer to explain my issue to him than it took him to
break it free with his impact driver.

It could be that I loosened it up quite a bit with weeks of heat, soaking
with PB Blaster, and pulls on a long wrench with a breaker bar, but despite
all my best efforts I couldn't get it to budge at all whereas his impact
driver removed it (threads still in tact) in under a second.
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