Any tips for removing these bolts?

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by DatDudejF, Aug 1, 2019.

  1. DatDudejF

    DatDudejF Member

    Hello everyone

    I am installing ta performance valve covers, and there are two bolt on the left original valve cover that I can not get to. I can’t seem to fit a ratchet back there, and my sands don’t fit either. Are there any tips to get these two off. I got the other side done with ease, but I don’t want these two to delay the project.

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  2. DatDudejF

    DatDudejF Member

    I meant to say my hands don’t fit, not my sands
     
  3. LARRY70GS

    LARRY70GS a.k.a. "THE WIZARD" Staff Member

    Deepwell 3/8" socket, 1/4" drive with a universal joint.
     
  4. john.schaefer77

    john.schaefer77 Well-Known Member

    The new ones are going to be tighter if you got the aluminum ones.
     
  5. copperheadgs1

    copperheadgs1 copperheadgs1

    I never had any trouble getting them off with Larry’s method.
     
  6. copperheadgs1

    copperheadgs1 copperheadgs1

    AC cars suck don’t they. :D
     
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  7. 436'd Skylark

    436'd Skylark Sweet Fancy Moses!!!!!

    Lefty loosey, righty tighty
     
  8. copperheadgs1

    copperheadgs1 copperheadgs1

    Unless you are working on pipes sometimes.
     
  9. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    Or driver's side lug nuts for pre 65 BOPs and pre-75 MOPARs.
     
  10. copperheadgs1

    copperheadgs1 copperheadgs1

    Sounds like a lot of snapped studs.
     
  11. yachtsmanbill

    yachtsmanbill Well-Known Member

    Or driver's side lug nuts for pre 65 BOPs

    Not all... ws
     
  12. 68 Wildcat

    68 Wildcat Dash Riprock

    Back in the day, a customer at the garage managed to snap all of them off trying to change the tire on his mother's 63 valiant (with push button gears and that ugly mock spare on the trunk lid.)
    How he didn't get the clue after the first one snapped, I'll never know.
     
  13. blyons79

    blyons79 Well-Known Member

    Or differential carrier units!
     
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  14. TrunkMonkey

    TrunkMonkey Totally bananas

    I prefer flex extensions to u-joint types.
    But both are "must haves" in the tool box.
     
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