Acer2428

Weirdness....same thing happened to me today while I was trying to pu tmy new shocks in...DAMNIT!!!! Still looking for key...

StangTangGT

wow, i never had any idea these were such a nuisance. they do more harm than good obviously[8D] anyways what does a stripped bolt head remover look like? and sideways, is it called an easy out socket? dont know why im haveing a brain fart but whats a breaker bar?

95_GT_Stang

You ever see that gator wrench thing, the one with all those pins that "form" to whatever size nut your trying to remove? That just might be able to get it off.

Casper98GT

The gator grip is useless. lol. And its actually more of a "reverse" easy out.

ZachW04Stang

To get the lug nuts off a jeep when the person lost the key, we destroyed the rims getting the lug nuts off with an air chissel and it took a little over 3 hours to get all 4 rims off.

Acer2428

Welp, the service manager had a key that was a different pattern (not his, lying around the shop) and he ground it until he could hammer it in to the lock and pull it out (not an air hammer).... Worked like a charm... Putting the new shocks in was easy...

So yeah, glad we have incompetent people like you destroying our rims

ZachW04Stang

I try my best to do things as hard as possible.

roundman

the technical name for an "easy out" is a screw extractor, these are used when the bolt has snapped off leaving it with no head. to use one, you have to drill the proper size hole in the center of the broken bolt and insert the extractor in the hole with a hammer, then turn it with a wrench counterclockwise to make it dig into the bolt and hopefully it will grab hold and break it loose from the threads so it can be removed. the stripped bolt head extractor works the opposite way as it is designed to grab hold of a rounded off bolt head and do the same thing as the extractor does. and a breaker bar is a socket wrench accessory that is longer than a normal ratchet to provide extra torque to bust loose really tight bolts or nuts. the square drive socket fitting is mounted in the end of the breaker bar where it can only pivot back and forth in a 180 degree motion, so it has no ratcheting mechanism to break when you apply the heavy torque to it. you can however break off the square drive male end if the bolt is really really tight and you use a cheater bar on the breaker bar to apply some extra torque to it. but if you buy a Craftsman breaker bar, you can always take it back and get a new one! LOL