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That explains a lot. Had a tire shop tighten the bolts on my old car so extremely tight that the threading on the bolts were broken. Every time I changed the ti
by Thlom 5y ago
That explains a lot. Had a tire shop tighten the bolts on my old car so extremely tight that the threading on the bolts were broken. Every time I changed the tires after that I had to use a wrench with a looong bar attached to loosen the bolts (In Norwegian we call this a “latmannsarm which directly translates to lazy man arm, not sure what the English word would be). No matter how much grease or how much care I took to not tighten too hard the bolts were stuck next season. Glad the car is sold and not my problem anymore.
(I could of course have bought new bolts, but I always forgot about it after spending 2 hours changing the tires …)
- enragedcacti 5y agoin English we call that a Cheater bar, so it seems like that has carried across pretty well :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_bar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_bar
- alangibson 5y agoAKA Cheater Pipe in Texas.
- gkop 5y agoNot mentioned on that page, but you can make one out of two ordinary wrenches, which is both practical and may impress your friends! All I found online describing this was a video: https://youtu.be/5DShRItYxLA https://youtu.be/5DShRItYxLA
- repiret 5y agoA cheater bar or breaker bar.