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Re:How a Car Engine Works by WalterBright on Monday April 11, 2016 @02:42AM (#11469985)
To get suspension nuts off once I had to get a 3 foot breaker bar and put a 2 foot pipe on it to extend it. Finally cracked that sucker loose!

The manual showed a picture of a guy using a foot long breaker bar. What a joke.

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Re:How a Car Engine Works by Grishnakh on Monday April 11, 2016 @09:37AM (#11471341)
When the car's brand-new, you probably can use a foot-long breaker bar. Over time, though, they can get seized.

I have a breaker bar, but I haven't used it ever since I got an impact wrench. You can put a lot more torque on a bolt with a handheld impact wrench than you can with a giant breaker bar; they're really a quite remarkable invention when you think about it. The one I have (1/2in drive Ingersoll-Rand titanium body) has 1000 ft-lb IIRC.

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