During removal of the rear exhaust pipes last weekend, I intended to remove the whole length but hit a snag.
These friggin nuts on the down pipe, just below the pre-cat. You can see I've been soaking them in WD-40.
Unfortunately, they wouldn't budge and they're hard to get to. With a little online research and some advise from the peeps on BAMD, I bought some wobble extensions and used a cheater bar. Along with ample weasel piss I was able to break two of the nuts loose. The third I managed to strip, so I wasn't able to get a grip with my sockets. What to do?
So today I went to the local Ace hardware store and got a set of nut extractor sockets. They grab the nut with this reverse helical fluting. Similar to screw extractors, but for nuts. (Hmmm, that didn't sound right.) Along with a cheater bar (engine hoist jack lever :D), this worked like a charm, though the nut is now useless. Easy enough to replace though.
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| Handy, these things are. |
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