Any really useful Rusty bolt removing tips needed!
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Any really useful Rusty bolt removing tips needed!
I am trying to remove the Cat & Lamda Sond. The silencer end of cat unbolted fine, but the manifold end is reallyin accesable and rusted to buggery! AAAgggghhh! I thought only british cars were this bad! This is the only rusty bit on the whole car!
Help would be SO appreciated
Help would be SO appreciated
1996 Mini Classic 1275.
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angle grinder or small blow torch. In the exhaust shops they don't even border to take a wrench.
Use fitting 6 side sockets.
Some hammer blows on the head and the nut will help too. Not forgetting WD 40, and the likes. In other cases than an exhaust (it hangs loose and has no countermass) a small sharp chisel will help radialwise on a big nut.
Use fitting 6 side sockets.
Some hammer blows on the head and the nut will help too. Not forgetting WD 40, and the likes. In other cases than an exhaust (it hangs loose and has no countermass) a small sharp chisel will help radialwise on a big nut.
luck,
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my mate managed to aquire from the quarry he works at, some really really thin cutting discs for the 6" mini grinder. Don't know what they are amde of but they piss thrrough anything (quicker than a nomal disc in the 9"!. I thought they would just disintegrate when i saw them. Any way this is what I used to cut the bolts off the cat on my sis's car, easier to manoever when yyour lying on your back!
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