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Sometimes the cheater bar is not enough.

1967coronet

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Holy crap, that has "breaks and contusions" written all over it.... :)
 
We had spanner wrenches with 5 and 6 foot handles. Some times things took a little heat but if it got red was a throw away.
 
Where there's a redneck, there's a way.:thumbsup: I love it! I rebuilt the Coronet mostly by myself, so I did a few things like that.
 
Did you try a couple of scaffold poles first? :lol:
Yeah, I don't have a problem with the big-arsed Ridgids and sliding some sch. 40 pipe over them for
cheatin'....
But as anyone who's done it knows, there's a difference in the torque being applied that way versus using
a come-along - things aren't going to go explosively sideways doing it by hand.
They sure as heck can using the come-along.
Been there, done and seen both....and got smart enough when I got older to sell off all my Ridgids longer
than 24" (I still have two of those). I figured out if I didn't have any, the company couldn't make me use 'em,
if you catch my drift here. :thumbsup:
 
Wish I had a good story to go with the pic.
But my son sent that to me. He is a plumber. Lol
 
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I’m a plumber also, in my plumbing tool arsenal is this strap wrench, used for everything from stubborn oil filters, twisting exhaust pipes, to putting on harmonic balances to help free up a stuck motor
 
Usually, occasions like this will, at some point, include the phrase "Ok, hold my beer. Let 'er rip, tater chip!"
 
Thats when you find out its lh thread after all the grunting and leverage engineering.
 
Last time I used a cheater getting the splines to line up in the suregrip. Coming up with something to hold the patient can be more challenging than the actual leverage that's needed.
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Thats when you find out its lh thread after all the grunting and leverage engineering.
I have yet to see LH thread in plumbing. Them joints usually come apart with two BFH's. That must have been something special.
 
My dad and a friend were trying to loosen a nut on a disc so they could service the bearings on the shaft. Had cheater bars on the wrenches, torch to heat things up, grunting, swearing. Then my mom walked by and asked them if they were supposed to tug the other way. Bingo!
 
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