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Subject:brake shoes cont..... 7mm wrench
From:McComas_Glenn
Date:Mon, 13 Mar 2000 04:36:36 -0500

Lee Roesner, Northbrook Office, wrote
........ going out tomorrow to buy fluid and a 7mm wrench (right one I
hope?) and
bleed brakes.

Lee,
The typical 7mm box wrench will be lots easier to use if you take it
someplace where they have an acetylene torch.  You want to bend a deep
offset....... mine is about 2" at say 60�.  Heat it cherry red just
past the box end, bend; then repeat ~2" along, bending in the opposite
direction.  Plays hell with the chrome; saves your knuckles.....