A good line wrench will not ruin the heads on brake lines - cheap ones do. I
bought a Snap-on wrench and it's far superior than the Chinese crap.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hall, Phillip" <Phillip.B.Hall@MSFC.NASA.GOV>
To: "Roadsters (E-mail)" <Datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:47 PM
Subject: shop tip: Removing frozen brake line nuts
> Kim fowarded this to me from the Z list. Great shop tip!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Beck [mailto:beck@becksystems.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 12:05 PM
> To: SmokyYaro@aol.com; z-car@taex001.tamu.edu
> Subject: Re: <L6>Re: Removing frozen brake line nuts, was brake pipes
>
>
> >At 11:51 AM -0500 10/24/2001, SmokyYaro@aol.com wrote:
> >If a brake line wont come off easily, stop and try my plan "B." Cut the
end
> >off the cheap 10mm line wrench (which always seems to fit poorly and
spread
> >when torque is applied to it and use this flexibility to your advantage).
> >
> >Slide the now cut off wrench into place with the "open" end facing
towards
> >you. Using an appropriately sized curved jawed vice grip, clamp SQUARELY
> >onto the line wrench end. Judicious application of vice grip force will
> >close the wrench just enough to act a perfectly sized adapter for the
vice
> >grip. The additional leverage of the vice grip loosens even the most
> >stubborn line ends.
> >
> >Cutting off the wrench is not necessary if you have room around the brake
> >line to fit both the line wrench and the vice grip over the line wrench.
> >
> >This doubles the "handles" one has to transfer twisting torque to the
> fitting
> >and removes them everytime. Well, almost everytime, the other day I
> actually
> >sheared the end off flush with the valve. The good news was that the now
> >sheared off end was still in good "shape". :) Vice Grip will probably
read
> >this and make a million or two with it!
>
> DARN... and I threw out all my cheap line wrenches! Well back to Sears...
> Sounds like a great shop tip Kim.
>
> I don't know if Vice Grip will make any money on this - but it does open
the
> door for a good machinist to come up with a whole line of "adaptors" for
use
> in this manor. You could take cheap deep well sockets, slice them into
> three or four parts, put a cut in them so they would compress and volia! a
> Vice Grip adaptor for just about any size nut or bolt.;-)
>
> FWIW,
> Carl
>
> Carl Beck
> Clearwater,FL USA
> IZCC #260
>
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