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Rebuilding rubicon express joints

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#1 ·
Anyone know how to do it without the tool sold by them? Anyways to cheat or anyother tools that would work. Maybe those used for rebuilding hydraulics? Any help would be appreciated.
 
#6 ·


http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&tool=all&item_ID=5848&group_ID=603&store=&dir=catalog

adjustable face pin spanners...I use them all the time (on hydraulic parts) They'll work a few times before breaking or the pins edges getting rounded, so get Snap On or something else that is good quality and warrantied


you can also hold two bolts into the holes and put a prybar between them to spin the nut, but that gets tricky to hold it all togethor and will slip apart...variance on that is to drill a couple matching holes in a piece of flat stock and put the bolts in them (weld in if desired) and use the flat stock as the handle to turn it
The RE tool is cheaper....
 
#5 ·
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&tool=all&item_ID=5848&group_ID=603&store=&dir=catalog

adjustable face pin spanners...I use them all the time (on hydraulic parts) They'll work a few times before breaking or the pins edges getting rounded, so get Snap On or something else that is good quality and warrantied


you can also hold two bolts into the holes and put a prybar between them to spin the nut, but that gets tricky to hold it all togethor and will slip apart...variance on that is to drill a couple matching holes in a piece of flat stock and put the bolts in them (weld in if desired) and use the flat stock as the handle to turn it
 
#11 ·
I bought mine and it makes the job easy, well worth it. The last thing you want is messing up the holes so you can not put it back together.
 
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