On 5/11/07, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I need to change the shocks on my S-10 Blazer. So I bought the > shocks and put the trunk up on jack stands. 4 hours latter I have one > rear shock off. Then I start on the other rear shock. The bolts on top > of the mount towers are the problem, you need to reach up and over and > hold a 13mm wrench on the bolt, while needing two hands on the ratchet > to remove the rusted nut. > > Now a little simple math will tell you that most of us are an arm short. > Back in the days when I co-owned a shop I would run it up on the lift > and just blow the nuts off with a torch and replace the nut and bolt > with new ones. However these days I have to lay on my back under the > truck in the apartment parking lot. So it is a beach reaching up there. > > Anyway to make a long story short, I lost my grip on the 13mm wrench. > Apparently it fell down between the gas tank and the gas tank skid > plate. No problem you say? Just pull off the skid plate? Well, I would, > but it takes a 13mm wrench... > > So I will have to make a trip to the store tomorrow for another wrench, > and while I am at it I will get some new bolts and nuts too.
To expand on what Paul said, Have a Grolsch... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
