[s-cars] Strut cap removal tool - 2069

[Charlie Smith]

Earlier, capnkidd wrote:
> 
> +-----Original Message-----
> +From: Doug Yoder [mailto:audifan at zordok.net] 
> +
> +Does anyone in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area have this tool, 
> +and are you willing to come rescue me?  Got everything all 
> +taken apart and realized I can't remove that cap with anything 
> +I have...
> +Audi tool #2069.  If I was smart, I'd have realized I needed 
> +it ahead of time, but now I can't wait to mail order the tool. 
> + Anyone got any ideas?  Email or call 414 708 3200 (cell phone).
> +
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> I've got one but it won't do you any good because I'm in Sacramento.
> However, I measured it in case you can somehow sub for it.  It's a 40mm
> socket wrench about 10 3/4" long with a 1/2" drive, obviously hollow for the
> shaft. 

Get a 40mm socket.  Take it to a bench grinder and grind through
the sidewall - all the way around.  Ending up with 2 parts, the
hollow "tube" that's got a 40mm hex inside one end, and the top
part with the 1/2" drive hole in it.

Get a piece of exhaust pipe, sized such that the I.D. just fits over
the outside of the 40mm socket parts - this tubing should be about
a foot long.

Put one piece of the ground-apart socket in each end of the exhaust
pipe, braze them in place.

You now have a perfectly usable strut removal tool.

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You can do a very similar operation to make a strut removal tool for
Bilstein struts.  Instead of a 40mm socket, you need to braze 4 short
pieces of 1/4" key stock (a hardware store item) on the outside of
the bottom end of an appropriately sized piece of exhaust pipe.
They should stick past the end of the exhaust pipe about 1/4" so
they can engage the notches on the Bilstein nut.  The other end gets 
an appropriately sized socket brazed in place.

    - Charlie


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