Tool for Front strut cap nut

[S2central.net]

After a lot of googling I can track down the special long pipe/box socket (29mm) with 1/2" drive to be from KLANN. It used to be available from the mother ship as the VAG2069.

Specifically it is the KLANN KL-0050-1

Unfortunately I cannot find one in Europe anywhere. Anybody got ideas for alternatives - other than having something custom made ?

I have tried to schwing the nut off before with a good stilson wrench and scaffold pipe but that thing is on tight.

[John B]

Hi Paul

You can buy or borrow mine if you like

Cheers

JB

[Vorsprung durch Technik]

I bought My 33mm version 2069A tool of Ebay DE a couple months ago,keep looking they usually come along eventually.

Edit unless you can borrow the above one.

[mcandmar]

There are plenty of options on flebay, though i always just knocked them off with a hammer and chisel.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351224466535
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290958019050

[Mikes2]

Front should be the 33mm. VAG2069a

[S2central.net]

Cool - isn't the 29mm correct for S2 - B3 and B4 ?

I've not measured it yet.

[Mikes2]

For the rear it's the 29mm

[S2central.net]

There are plenty of options on flebay, though i always just knocked them off with a hammer and chisel.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351224466535

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290958019050

No not that one mark.

[mcandmar]

Ooh right, i see what you are talking about now. Have you tried heating the cap with a torch?

[S2central.net]

Hi Paul



You can buy or borrow mine if you like



Cheers



JB

You have a PM John

[S2central.net]

Ooh right, i see what you are talking about now. Have you tried heating the cap with a torch?

No not yet but figured I will need the right tool to swing the booger out.

[S2central.net]

For the rear it's the 29mm

Oh great - so I will need two then :-(

[mcandmar]

No not yet but figured I will need the right tool to swing the booger out.

Stilson and pipe always worked for me, but the odd few have needed heat if they had never been apart before. The hardest part is getting a solid hold of the strut, i even broke a vice clean in two hanging off one with a pipe

[S2central.net]

These have been on there for 23yrs - I had to check that age in my head there. Says something good about the OE dampers.

Maybe I will try a little thermal persuasion. Not sure my vice is up to huge abuse either - the bench isn't bolted to floor either. I digress.

[mcandmar]

I remember somebody on the forum wedged the steering arm into a metal drain in the street