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What are flare nut wrenches for?

What are flare nut wrenches for?

Flare nut wrenches and wrench sets (also known as brake wrenches, grip wrenches, or line wrenches) have an opening in the wrench head that allows a brake line or obstruction to pass through it.

Is a line wrench the same as a flare wrench?

Brake line wrenches (flare nut wrenches or simply line wrenches) serve a specific purpose. Domestic cars often use 7/16-inch and imports 10 mm. Brake line wrenches (often called flare nut wrenches or simply line wrenches) serve a specific purpose in a mechanic’s toolbox.

What are crows foot wrenches used for?

What is a Crowfoot Wrench? A Crowfoot wrench is like a box-end or an open-end wrench or socket without a head or shaft. You can use it to reach around obstacles, especially where the typical 12pt and 6pt wrenches and sockets cannot exactly fit in.

What is a Crowfoot Flare nut wrench?

Crowfoot wrenches are used in hard-to-reach, restricted access situations where a standard wrench or ratchet cannot reach. 12-point flare nut allows for fine indexing, helping to improve speed and access. Fits 4, 6 and 12 point fasteners.

What size are the fittings on brake lines?

The most commonly confused sizes are 3/8” with 10 mm, and 7/16” with 11 mm. The 3/8” x 24NF will screw into M10 x 1 thread but not the other way around, so always try to screw M10 x 1 into 3/8” x 24NF to see if you have a match.

Which tools are used to enlarge the end of the tubing to make a flared fitting?

What are Swaging Tools? Swaging tools use pressure to expand or stretch the end of a piece of copper tubing so it can fit over another of the same diameter and make a permanent brazed connection.

What size are the flare nuts on our brake lines?

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  • Mavic19. I’m not sure about the size.
  • sbluke55. If none of the sae wrenches fit you could try metric to get a better fit.
  • Patrick Feeley. I can’t remember myself,but they could be metric (all my tubing wrenches are metric).
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  • sbluke55.
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  • tstaubly
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  • What size wrench for the nut on the tensioner?

    While the vehicle is on the ground,use a 17mm socket wrench to slightly loosen the four lug nuts on the right wheel.

  • Jack and support the front of your vehicle using the jack stand method as shown in our article BMW Jacking and Supporting for Repairs and Maintenance.
  • Using a 17mm socket wrench,remove the front right wheel from the vehicle.
  • What size socket for front axle nut?

    The axle nut is 6 point and iirc, it’s 32mm. Also, iirc, the e torx bolts are either an E8 or E10. its just the circular 12 pointed nut when you take the “dust or hub cap” thing off its the first thing you see, my BMW book calls it a “driveshaft flange collar nut”. Pull that collar nut off with a plier or screwdriver, it’s not screwed on.

    Are all tire lug nuts the same size?

    While there is no universal lug nut size, there are fortunately only about ten or so thread sizes and pitches that make up a lug nut’s size. The most common lug nut sizes are: 10mm x 1.25. The thread size or thread diameter is the measurement taken across the outside diameter of your wheel stud threads measured in either standard (7/16″, 1/2″, etc.) or metric (12mm, 14mm, etc.) dimensions.