RE: Oil Pump ?

[Ewan Hopkins <Ewan.Hopkins@computeraid.co.uk>]

No need to get special sockets.  Get an extender for a 3/8" ratchet with a
'wobble' end on it (can't remember the correct name for it!).  The squared
end of the extender that fits into the socket has bumps in the middle of
each face, allowing the socket to wobble. It acts basically like a limited
universal joint, allowing the socket to sit onto the nut correctly even tho'
the ratchet/extender isn't perpendicular to the nut.  I don't know offhand
if you would get a similar 1/2" socket/extender down the gap - might be too
tight for the socket.

HTH,

Ewan Hopkins

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Captnbr@aol.com [mailto:Captnbr@aol.com]
> Sent: 26 August 1999 16:43
> To: scirocco-L@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Oil Pump ?
> 
> 
> In a message dated 8/26/99 9:59:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> spredhaus@hotmail.com writes:
> 
> << The bolts that hold the oil pan on are super close to the 
> tranny, if I 
>  remember right.
>  
>  What name brand of socket are you guys using to get in 
> there?  I'm pretty 
>  sure my craftsman socket doesn't do the trick.
>   >>
> 
> I have been wanting to change my leaky pan gaskett for 3 
> years now.  I refuse 
> to pay someone to do somthing that looks so easy.  But I too 
> have not been 
> able to figure out how to remove those bolts under that 
> tranny, bell housing 
> type thing.  Anyone? Anyone?  Bueller?
> 
> Brian 86 16v
> 
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