Thats BOGUS!!! ?Even in a worst case scenario a nut cracker can be used
to remove a nut without backing out a stud. You should always use new
nuts anyway. A lot of shops want to flat-rate you by "the book" That way
they can charge a book price, yet they can do the job in half the time.
So you get to pay full job labor price for 1/2 the labor effort
expended. If they can't do it that way, they simply don't want to
bother. There are variety of nut cracker/nut removal tools out there.
Any real shop will have one and know how to use it effectively and
efficiently. I would definitely look elsewhere.

My $0.02.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

C. Chris Snyder wrote:

>---I need to have the exaust system (pipes) replaced on my '87 Vanagon however, I can not find ANY exaust shop where I live that will take on the job. They state that Volkswagon uses steel bolts in an alinuim head and that the bolts always break and then the heads have to be taken off and the bolt drilled out etc.
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