Help Me With Seized Bolts

[RESON8]

Thanks for the offer FASTFREDDY, but a mate of mine got the bolts out tonight.

Sprayed heaps of WD40 on them last night and this morning, them my mate used his 3/4" socket set with a nice long extension bar. Made very loud crack noises which worried me but they came out fine.

Looking at the bolts showed that they had a nice rusty coating on the thread and the wd40 hardly poenitrated any further then the head of the bolt.

Thanks for everyones advice.

[karl_2ltGC]

Reson8 good to hear :D

Todays lesson: Torque = Force x radius :D

[hotgemini]

The 3/4 inch drive breaker bar is your friend... Don't do what I've done and keep buying bigger and bigger 1/2 inch sockets, I think my biggest is something like 48mm. Unsurprisingly I broke my old breaker bar, undoing the 36mm driveshaft nut on a U12 pintara, I hear the usual crack that normally signifies that the nut has let go and the 6 foot RHS bar I was dangling from starts lowering me to the ground as usual... except the socket wasn't rotating, instead the 1/2 inch drive pin was rotating inside the yoke of the breaker bar... This hasn't stopped me from buying another three 40mm+ 1/2 inch drive sockets since then.

[Warpspeed]

Another thing to think about is the strength of the sockets themselves. Most of the chrome ones are made with twelve points, and are thin so you can get the socket down into tight spots, ideal for light work.

You can buy extra heavy duty sockets for use with rattle guns, they are usually black not chrome. And a six point socket is going to be a lot stronger and kinder to the bolt than a twelve point socket when you really start to heave on your long bar.

[FASTFREDDY]

Good to hear every thing worked out.