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Re: what is a crowsfoot wrench?

To: REwald9535@aol.com
Subject: Re: what is a crowsfoot wrench?
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:07:52 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 REwald9535@aol.com wrote:

> Karl,
> A crows foot wrench is an open end, box, or flarenut wrench that rather than 
> having a handle has a broach for a socket drive (usually 3/8, but could be 
> 1/4 or 1/2).  This allows you to get into some very tight place that a wrench 
> won't fit and by using the correct extension and a ratchet handle be able to 
> undo a bolt that you would swear the car maker started the assembly of the 
> car with and then built the rest of the car around this bolt. <G>
> Depending on the application these may be a little hard to find.
> Hope this helps clear the fog.
> Rick Ewald

*****Sears sells them as well AutoZone and JC Whitney. One part on the
MGB that really needs a crowsfoot wrench is the clutch slave cylinder
nut.
...Art




> > 
> In a message dated 4/19/99 10:34:56 PM SA Eastern Standard Time, 
> karl.shultz@ibm.net writes:
> 
> > "Crow's Foot Wrench" or something like that.
> >  
> >  What are they?
> 
> 


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