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Quick question because I'm losing my mind here. Diff making noise so I'm removing it to inspect (don't get me started... will be posting a curse filled walk through when it's all said and done).
Anyways, I'm at the point where I'm removing the half shaft and it has these bolts on it:
Cursing ensues because I have **** for hand me down tools. Fine, go out and buy these:
Now the fucked up part; the 1/4" (also labeled 6mm) is too small (can't hammer it on) and the 9/32" (also labeled 7mm) is too big (as in it pretty much spins freely).
WHAT. THE. ****? Help? Anyone? I'd like to think I'm not an idiot and that this should be a very simple task, but it's proving otherwise.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like someone else tried the wrong socket, and rounded it. 1/32 is not much of a difference. What about a piece of aluminum foil in the 9/32 to try and tighten it?
6 mm = 0.235 inches which is smaller than a true 1/4 inch (0.25) socket which could explain why your SAE/metric socket was too tight. You may what to try a standard SAE socket set.
So as a few of you pointed out... proper tools. Wasn't aware that what I got wasn't a 12point set. Went out and bought a crappy socket set and the 1/4" 12point did the job flawlessly. Now to figure out what a spline set is actually used for...
It was a spline head bolt someone who didn't know what they were doing boogered up because no 12 point will fit it. Just did the u-joints on my 80 and found they were spine head bolts.
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'81 - Removing Half Shafts - Need Help
