Clutch Replacement
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Clutch Replacement
This isn't for a truck, but still a Ford... Anyway, here's my problem. I'm replacing the clutch in my sister's V6 mustang, and I cannot get the bolts loose from the tranny to the bellhousing, and the transmission mount to the transmission. I've tried as long of a breaker bar that I can fit under the car with no success. I've also tried an impact wrench, also with no success. Are there any tips or tricks to get these bolts loose?
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Clutch Replacement
They can't be too tight to break loose by hand. Give it another try with the impact wrench. I just took off a wheel after getting new tires. I could not loosen the lug nuts with a breaker bar. My el cheapo impact did it after a few seconds. 
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I've held the impact on there for a good 10 seconds or so multiple times, and haven't seen the slightest bit of movement. But I will keep on trying today. Thanks for the response.
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If you can get the right size box end wrench securely on the nuts, get it on there. Take a rubber mallet, and rap the heck out of the opposite end of the wrench, in the right direction, and they should break loose.
You may need an off set box wrench.
You can also try slipping a short section of pipe over your breaker bar handle, for additional leverage, that normaly works well.
There are a lot of quality differences between impacts, some won't break diddly, others are so strong, that you have to turn them down, to keep from snapping everything off.
We have a mess of impacts at the shop, that are pieces of crap.
We just purchased a new 1/2" drive impact that, on setting 3, will spin wheel lugs off our Case and John Deer Tractors so fast, that they are off, before you can let go of the trigger.
The worst ones are the right angle impacts, they seem to loose to much power, in the transition of the right angle gearing.
Pipe over the breaker bar, or a whollup with a rubber mallet.
Let us know how ou do!
Good Luck!
You may need an off set box wrench.
You can also try slipping a short section of pipe over your breaker bar handle, for additional leverage, that normaly works well.
There are a lot of quality differences between impacts, some won't break diddly, others are so strong, that you have to turn them down, to keep from snapping everything off.
We have a mess of impacts at the shop, that are pieces of crap.
We just purchased a new 1/2" drive impact that, on setting 3, will spin wheel lugs off our Case and John Deer Tractors so fast, that they are off, before you can let go of the trigger.
The worst ones are the right angle impacts, they seem to loose to much power, in the transition of the right angle gearing.
Pipe over the breaker bar, or a whollup with a rubber mallet.
Let us know how ou do!
Good Luck!
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Clutch Replacement
Ok, we ended up soaking the bolts best we could with PB Blaster and let it sit for a day. Came back today, and everything just came right off. Thanks for the help.
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Hey Dude,
Congrats!! I'm glad you got them off. Nothing worse than unmanagable nuts....
PB Blaster?? What is it? Where did you get it?
Never had the problem, so I suppose its a product thats sitting on the shelf of every major Auto Parts Store in the U.S.A.
Congrats!! I'm glad you got them off. Nothing worse than unmanagable nuts....
PB Blaster?? What is it? Where did you get it?
Never had the problem, so I suppose its a product thats sitting on the shelf of every major Auto Parts Store in the U.S.A.
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I think I got mine from NAPA. I know the owner of a local NAPA store, and he recommended PB Blaster and PDQ to free up an alternator mounting bracket on an old S10. We got it off after soaking it for a long time with both PDQ and PB Blaster. Both are penetrating oils designed to get into tight spaces and loosen rusty bolts, and seem to work as advertised.
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