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Originally Posted by BodhiBenz1987
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-Plastic wrap trick worked great ... popped on a new brake hose today and minimal fluid spillage resulted. Thanks.
-I got one brake caliper bolt loose thanks to PB Blaster and a really big hammer. The top one won't move for love nor money. I doused it with PB Blaster, and just for good measure, sprayed some PB Blaster in my face as well. I'm beating the life out of my socket wrench to no avail (I tried a 6pt socket, no luck there, either). I think I can fit an impact wrench on it ... any harm in resorting to that? If it'll fit back there it seems an easy out. If not, should I try heating the bolt? I'm a little worried about torching the area, although since I'm replacing the caliper maybe it wouldn't matter.
-I love spring. It was 50 degrees out today and sunny and it felt like paradise compared to what we've had. Then I had to go to work. Have I ever mentioned I hate my job?
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You probably won't get the impact wrench in there.
The solution is as follows:
Hopefully, you have a breaker bar............a bar that where you can attach a socket that doesn't have the ratcheting capability.
Put the socket on the breaker bar and get another person to hold the socket on the cap screw.
Then get a three or four foot piece of pipe and extend the length of the breaker bar.
If you're doing the left wheel, extend the pipe out the front of the vehicle and pull up on the pipe.
if you're doing the right wheel, you can try to extend the bar out the front of the vehicle and push down on it...........but, you are limited by your own body weight. Success is more difficult in this case. Extending the bar to the rear of the vehicle to enable you to pull up on the bar is depending on the angle of the flats of the cap screw. Sometimes it works..........sometimes it doesn't.