Re: [Amc-list] big a** wrenches

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

I use a pair of 24" pipe wrenches. You can adjust them to the flats just like regular wrenches. Helps that I happened to have access to a pair of them though! Now I have one, my brother has one. In the past I borrowed one from my shop tool crib. Works great! The wrenches in the TSM are misleading -- they were made to be used with long cheater pipes. I rotate the handle of one wrench against the body, use a 18" pipe on the other. 

This is all for the "big nut" driveshaft, for those who didn't know!

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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:32:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>

So I'm just gonna buy a pair of 1-3/4" wrenches. No sense
avoiding, or being afraid of, working on big-nut rears, or
using junk solutions.

So "real" wrenches (SK or better) are like $100. Crap wrenches
are as low as $12 (!!!).

Since these are low-use, but high torque, I'm thinking of
buying some middling non-brand that at least claims to be
vanadium steel, drop forged. (The cheap ones say "fully
polished!" (great!) "carbon steel" (umm, great?) or nothing
at all... I figure if they go out on a limb and utter a known
alloy steel there's a slight chance it won't bend into a "Y"
with 300 ft/lbs.

The middling ones run $25 - $35 each. Sound about right?

-- 
Frank Swygert
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