These are the important points. Use PB Blaster (let it soak in!) and a quality breaker bar or socket wrench on the strut bolts. You shouldn't need an impact wrench.
keep ur reciepts from harbor frieght and buy pittsburg tools and you have lifetime warranty! but i have never seen or done that before. just bought a big air compressor and a impact is soon to come so i shouldnt have to worry about my wrenches.
Couple hours? Wtf are you smoking? Ive never had to let pb blaster soak for more than 5 minutes and ive worked on some incredibly rusted out pieces of ****. Def use leverage. If you can get it up higher in the air (lift or a non pos floor jack/jack stands) loosen from below rather than have the wrench handle pointing up and cranking on it inside the fender well.
I was in Harbor Freight for the first time just this past week. I'm not sure which is the bigger "tool"...the merchandise or the customers.
Absolutely! Impact wrench is not the answer. Quality tools are. 12-point harbor fail wrench is about as wrong of a tool as you can have. There was a bumper sticker at Northern once about having the wrong tool. I wish I could remember it, or had bought the sticker at the time. That said, a Google Image Search for "wrong tool for the job" comes up with some pretty interesting pictures. Lots of fingers with stitches in them....
Bitch please. Or ive used the right tools, leverage, heat, etc... subscribing to see how many things you break.
been he used the wrong tool to take off the bolts, do you think he use the correct tool to install them? I know my bolts are at 112 ft/lbs.
Find a good set of used MAC or Snap-on on eBay. No breaky. Helps to use penetrating oil first. It also helps to have a short (12-inch) breaker bar.
I think he got butt hurt and ran off in search of scientific proof that he was indeed a bag o D. That is just a theory.
