On 6/2/06, Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi- I'm removing an automatic transmission and the bolts are 10 mm -
> are'nt they suppposed to be 13mm? I can't turn the socket without it
> slipping, and a 9 won't fit.
>
>   So if the dumb bolt head is stripped,  how do you remove the bolts?
>   Not something I have done before.

Funny you should mention, a couple days ago I was watching the escalator
repair guy at work taking off a whole string of rusted, rounded off bolt
heads. He was using this weird 3/8 drive socket with 6 angled ridges inside
instead of a hex shape. The box the sockets were in said "IRWIN Bolt-Grip".
He swore by them, saying they never failed, grabbing on to and remove
rounded off bolts that wouldn't even budge with vise grip pliers

Doing an internet search, it looks like Home Despot even carries them.

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John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"