[s-cars] Strut cap removal tool - 2069

[William Perron]

>>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.

Actually you now have a perfectly useable 40mm
"extension" socket which won't help with the strut
removal :)

You need to weld a 40mm NUT onto one end of your
exhaust tube, as the stock strut cap has an internal
hex into which this nut would fit.  You can cut the
socket and braze in the 1/2" drive part to the other
end of the tubing as you suggested.

-Bill Perron



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