Bi Hex Crow Foot Wrench

[Ibex94]

Am rebuilding my front axle and need to retorque the swivel retaining bolts. I am therefore looking for a 14mm bihex crow foot wrench. Have looked all over but cannot find a bihex foot. Anyone out there in L/R help with this? If no joy then a spanner will need modifying.

Cheers

Rob

[simonr]

I don't quite understand why you need a crows-foot wrench? I've done this before but don't own any crows foot wrenches?

Si

[Les Henson]

I just do them up mental tight. If you modify something in order to use a torque wrench, then there's a possibility that you may negate the scale on the wrench and therefore tighten the bolts incorrectly.

Les.

[AndyEvans]

and for that reason there are some maths to do. or a handy online calcultor http://www.norbar.com/Calculators/TorqueWr...70/Default.aspx

[white90]

B tight as Les says has always done mine no harm

[stewy1984]

9/16 ring spanner and a hammer, never done mine any harm.

[Turbocharger]

I think I bent my ring spanner doing mine up with a piece of tube over it, and there was Locktite in there too. I haven't had any problems, but that's not necessarily a recommendation...

[treebloke]

Is there any difference between 14mm and 9/16", does one fit slightly better than the other?. I have always used 9/16" which just seems to fit the better of the two.

[clbarclay]

My experiance is standard spanners tend to be about the right length that without any additional leverage they will tighten a bolt up to about the right torque. I've not needed more than a standard combination spanner on them and only double up spanners for undoing them.

Try tightening up a bolt the same size with a torque wrench and then try tightening it up some more with just a spanner to get an idea how much force/leaverage is required.