Found it but can't get a wrench on it!

[camobob]

I thought not but it's worth circling back and trying again. Off to it.........

 

[airbiscuit]

Can you get to that second bolt without making another access hole?

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Are we missing the fact that he's fixed the issue?

EDIT: Opps, I though I had read that he fixed it, I was wrong.

 

[Daren Todd]

Are we missing the fact that he's fixed the issue?

Well I missed it as well.

 

[lugbolt]

Welcome to mechanic'n

You have options.

(1) make a tool to get in there. I have done this many, many times. Take a $50 wrench, cut the end off, weld it to something else, bend here, tack it there, etc.--just to do a job that won't cost the consumer anywhere near what it cost me to buy the parts to make that tool!

(2) hire it out.

(3) get online and compiain about it

(4) start taking stuff off until you can get to it. That is often how mechanics that do it for a living have to do it. And-that's also one of many reasons repairs cost what they do.

(5) just do it, however you can, and ask good questions along the way.

 

[airbiscuit]

Don't do option (3).

 

[mikester]

Don't do option (3).

Forgot to add
(6) skin your knuckles, curse, have wife tell you you should be wearing gloves while using tools

 

[BAP]

Are we missing the fact that he's fixed the issue?

Where did he post saying he had fixed it? Other than bypassing it temporarily?

 

[GreensvilleJay]

re: (2)
A LOT of pro shop mechanics do NOT replace bolt # on Ford V8 starter jobs !!! Seems that's a common CHEAT.Nine has 3 in it, as local mechanic told me about the cheat.

(7) when done, please ad [SOLVED] to the original subject after you post HOW you got it done. Pretty sure others would like to know !!

 

[Chanceywd]

Welcome to mechanic'n

You have options.

(1) make a tool to get in there. I have done this many, many times. Take a $50 wrench, cut the end off, weld it to something else, bend here, tack it there, etc.--just to do a job that won't cost the consumer anywhere near what it cost me to buy the parts to make that tool!

(2) hire it out.

(3) get online and compiain about it

(4) start taking stuff off until you can get to it. That is often how mechanics that do it for a living have to do it. And-that's also one of many reasons repairs cost what they do.

(5) just do it, however you can, and ask good questions along the way.

A lot of truth there Lugbolt! I have worked on a lot of german made machinery and always seemed like they wanted you to take a lot of things apart to change something simple. I once heated and bent an 8mm allen wrench so I could get into the throat of an extruder to change an oil seal with 4 allen screws holding it in. There method required removing the gearbox after removing the 75hp electric motor etc. We would often do as you say cut off a wrench for a particular job. Another I cut a 19mm open end off and welded a large washer on the cut end. That way I could keep it on one finger to reposition without dropping. It required for that one a large wrench to initially loosen and tighten but no room for a large wrench to swing.

 

[GeoHorn]

I’ve got a small carry-around toolbox that has nothing but tools and wrenches that I’ve modified, cut, welded, bent, and otherwise violated so as to perform specific jobs. Some of those those tools I made over 50 years-ago…. and most I’ve only used when I first made them…and some of them are now made by actual tool-makers such as Snap-On, MAC, and PROTO….but I’ve STILL GOT MY ORIGINALS! (Wasn’t smart enough to submit them for patents and I’ve had Nine different residence-address-changes since then….. so Snap-On and MAC hasn’t sent me any checks that I know of.)

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Well I missed it as well.

Opps, I though i read he fixed it, I was wrong.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Where did he post saying he had fixed it? Other than bypassing it temporarily?

Opps, I though i read he fixed it, I was wrong.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

gee you posted twice in a row... so if 'two wrongs make a right'......

 

[Daren Todd]

Forgot to add
(6) skin your knuckles, curse, have wife tell you you should be wearing gloves while using tools

Every job requires a blood sacrifice