My bro told me the easiest way to get head bolts off is to use a 15 mm wrench (use the rounded side) and a hammer hold the wrench on the bolt and smack the other end of the wrench with the hammer that's it! Let me tell you it works! Thanks Rick!:hail:

 

"to the Camaro batman"

im goin ot give that a shot

 

I used socket, extension, and my 1/2 really big breaker bar. Didn't have any air tools at the time.

 

breaker bar/pole.

 

Yeah, I tried that and it didn't work for me and gave me blisters! I guess it's a different story wen you weight 130lbs.

 

Then air tools. however, comma, it shouldn't matter how much you weigh if your technique is good. I found this out in tech school. Was a lot better than what I was doing.

 

I used a 15mm socket and it worked fine for me. You just have to put some muscle behind it. I would not recomend and air gun, you MIGHT strip the threads...

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...73#post1280773
Look at Dale's post.

 

the night we pulled and tore down my friends 79 lincoln motor we simply used a good craftsman ratchet with a 5' pole attached to it. Think Torque = leverage , had my friend hold the ratchet to the headbolt to make sure the socket wasn't going to move off the bolt and strip it, and then i simply applied a little bit of downpressure on the pole, with that the bolt came off with little or not trouble. His little brother tried to do the other bolt, ended up stripping a couple of the bolt heads however, we were lucky that we bought that craftsman striped bolt head remover (worked like a charm, dug into the metal, and pulled it out w/o any extra effort.)

 

Remember, too, how an impact wrench works. It impacts the bolts many times. You can duplicate that on all wrenching- instead of pullllllllling on the wrench, give quick/hard pulls. (Or pushes). Just pullllling on a wrench is a good way to strip the head of a bolt! That's why the hammer works so well- it sets up vibration, like an impact wrench. Be careful when hammering on chrome tools; the chrome can chip and pieces can fly into your eye.

Also if you use air tools to take a motor apart, you can't really "feel" for any potential problems. For instance, if one head bolt turned out to be much looser then the others, you would be able to suspect a head gasket problem.

 

The breaker bar works great but it's a two person job lol I did it yesterday with my friend and I hit my moms van (it's been sitting there for 3 years) and a bunch of bees came out the side mirror and I got stung on my finger and head

 

i use a breaker bar with a large wrench with the closed end over the end of the bar, works faster that an impact gun