For future reference, and not telling you how to suck eggs but bolts such as these exposed to salt and elements will be the trickiest. Pre soak your bolts and threads when you have a job coming up. If you got it planned in for sat just go and give a wire brush and spray days before. I will get a wire wheel on the bolt head and clean right back to maximise grip as you can't use a 6 point impact. When it comes to undoing heat etc helps but to get mine off I needed a socket on breaker then a scaffolding pole on the end of that. Get leverage rather than hacking at it and use physics to your advantage. I don't know what you would categorise as a lemon. If only the issues ended at calipers haha. Good luck
 
Money bags, would love to buy snap on but funds are low :(

Its not that matey ive bought loads of cheaper tools over the years, when the tool doesn't do the job
its intended for & you smash yourself in the face when it fails then there is no compromise for me.
Firstly you've wasted your hard earned cash on cr@p gear plus your time & you need to go an buy
a quality tool when you in your head..... you know that's what you should have done from the start lol
 
hello folks,

Ok so I purchased myself a disco 1 commercial, the brakes are dia to say the least, over the last couple of 3 weekends I've tried to get them sorted, first weekend I bought all 4 corners discs and pads, 2nd weekend I relised I didn't have a 52mm socket, so far its not going well, now today omg what a mare,everything is so seized, so far I have managed to get one bolt out the flexy to steel pipe holder bracket on the top of the hub and one bolt out the bottom of the caliper.

Now this is where the fun starts, the top caliper to hub bolt has the spline type head so a 12 sided socket is needed, due to age, corrosion and tightness trying to undo it has managed to screw the splines up with the socket slipping round, I also think the pistons in the caliper are not seized solid but don't move like they should.

Now my question is..............has anyone had this bolt issue, if so how did you get it out? I have no hope of getting mole grips or stilsons on it, now as the caliper is scrap anyway do I grind the head off the bolt then cut the caliper off to get it out the way then I may be able to use the stilsons on the shaft of the bolt to ease it out,

Any help or advise will be very much appreciated

Thanks peeps
heat it up ffs
 
UPDATE....................................Woohooooooooooooooooooo both osf and nsf discs and pads sorted, the 5 piece irwin extractors did the trick on the caliper bolt :cool: still needing an nsf caliper as all but 1 pistons are very tight, the osf was so easy it was unreal, every bolt came of so easy, guessing because the caliper had been replaced not so long ago, the only thing that side needs is a wheel bearing as the inner bearing is quite crunchie :eek: but will do for now :D.

Next weekend I plan to tackle the back discs and pads o_O expecting major crap from those cause they look like the originals there that knackered and crusty :eek:, fingers crossed its nice and easy :confused: so thanks for all your help folks and links etc to the tools that worked very well :)
 
Its not that matey ive bought loads of cheaper tools over the years, when the tool doesn't do the job
its intended for & you smash yourself in the face when it fails then there is no compromise for me.
Firstly you've wasted your hard earned cash on cr@p gear plus your time & you need to go an buy
a quality tool when you in your head..... you know that's what you should have done from the start lol

I understand totally where your coming from, I'm a tool snob myself, never liked cheap ****e as like you say they do fail, I always try to buy good quality, I would rather buy quality used from boot sales (got a lot of britool bits in the past) than cheap new :cool:
 
The link just goes to an empty cart.

Cheers

oh bugger, soz :(

For future reference, and not telling you how to suck eggs but bolts such as these exposed to salt and elements will be the trickiest. Pre soak your bolts and threads when you have a job coming up. If you got it planned in for sat just go and give a wire brush and spray days before. I will get a wire wheel on the bolt head and clean right back to maximise grip as you can't use a 6 point impact. When it comes to undoing heat etc helps but to get mine off I needed a socket on breaker then a scaffolding pole on the end of that. Get leverage rather than hacking at it and use physics to your advantage. I don't know what you would categorise as a lemon. If only the issues ended at calipers haha. Good luck

Sound advice is that, will deffo do that next time :cool:

Just goes to your cart. Assuming the link is to the Irwin 5 piece set, I was put off by the fact that the largest hex size is 16mm. The cheap 10 piece set goes to 19mm.

Yes it was and managed to get the set from homebase in town, saved me a 40 mile round trip :D paid a bit extra but worth it ;)

heat it up ffs

I did several times :rolleyes:
 
Just goes to your cart. Assuming the link is to the Irwin 5 piece set, I was put off by the fact that the largest hex size is 16mm. The cheap 10 piece set goes to 19mm.

You can get Irwin " expansion" sets that got to 19mm, what cheap 10 pce set are you mentioning?

Cheers
 
You can get Irwin " expansion" sets that got to 19mm, what cheap 10 pce set are you mentioning?

The EBay one I refer to in Post 14. 9mm to 19mm in 10 pieces, held in foam in a smart aluminium box for just under £12. I bought a set to have in my portable tool kit and have used it a few times with great success. The biggest problem is removing the nut from the extractor without a vice.
 
I understand totally where your coming from, I'm a tool snob myself, never liked cheap ****e as like you say they do fail, I always try to buy good quality, I would rather buy quality used from boot sales (got a lot of britool bits in the past) than cheap new :cool:

Tool snob lol :D
 
The EBay one I refer to in Post 14. 9mm to 19mm in 10 pieces, held in foam in a smart aluminium box for just under £12. I bought a set to have in my portable tool kit and have used it a few times with great success. The biggest problem is removing the nut from the extractor without a vice.

Nice, I have the Irwin exp set #2, 8,10,13,16& 19mm, have ordered the cheap ones to use in emergencies and keep in the 90. Thanks

Cheers
 
I got a shinny new replacement breaker today bar off snap on cause I snapped it o_O:D

Now your showing off ;);) That's the beauty of Snap-on, and its ok if your in the trade where the Snap-on man turns up every week showing all his bling in his van, sadly I'm not, mind you that's not a bad thing as I already have one mortgage :rolleyes:
 
Now your showing off ;);) That's the beauty of Snap-on, and its ok if your in the trade where the Snap-on man turns up every week showing all his bling in his van, sadly I'm not, mind you that's not a bad thing as I already have one mortgage :rolleyes:

Haha aye I was showing when I managed to put myself on my arse when I broke the bar much to the
amusement of the lads I was working with......

I used to be in the motor trade, now I do boats the lads all buy snap on so he's here most weeks &
with the guarantee its hard to beat, walking into the shinny tool van with all the lights on puts you in a
trance so youl pick something lol
 
It is a bit of a bodge job but it worked for me recently, if the the 13 star head bolt is wrung try hammering on a 12mm and use a breaker bar if there is enough room.
 
Hope you've brushed and soaked the back ones this week ready for the weekend? Get a wire wheel or pig tail on a drill and clean the 12 point right up. A clean bolt head means a clean fit with your 12 point. Get that BIG bar on it. Scaff pole ftw!
 

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