Best of the internet right here folks. This guy presented more solutions in 10 minutes than most politicians do in 4 years.

I notice these videos always use easy access bolts as examples, but the most common reason for stuck and stripped bolts is that they're in hard to access places, which makes them hard to get a wrench around, which is what caused the fiasco in the 1st place.

Awesome tips. Opened up the mind to a different way of looking at problems -- Improve the grip, increase the leverage/torque. This line of thinking can be applied to other problems too.

After watching 15 of these videos you are the only one who actually MENTIONS using cold. I always like to use hot / cold together.

One of the best of the entire internet. Thank you!!!

Best video out there.Was always lookin for one that could give a preventative tip and only yours explained about antiseize. Greetings from England🇬🇧

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. outstanding. The only one that you didn't mention was the smoke wrench. Oxy acetylene torch. That as my dad used to say "is for when you are done talkin"

Thank you, So much!!! I have an alternator I am trying to replace. The tension belt adjuster is a monster rusted. I am certain one of these techniques will work.

Sir, you have my sincere thanks! Great information, great video!

love it - thank you! I'm going to use some of these tips to try and remove some rusted bolts on an old compound miter saw someone gave me.

Thanks for the tips. I have just had a fight with a small outboard. I used most of your ideas but the combination of ferrous metals mixing with alloys created a lot of galvanic corrosion. In the end I had to drill it it off. I like the nut splitting idea. The problem with small outboards the very small constricted space available for tools

Great tips. I pretty much go to the heating the female and adding wax from a candle as a time saver. Works for threaded plumbing joints, manifolds etc...sometimes on very large marine applications I have to use oxy acetylene to get the parts hot enough to suck the wax in but this is king!

Great Vajayo! only two additional tricks I know that you did not include welding a bolt onto a stripped head ( typically an oil pan drain plug) the other trick is use an air chisel on the end of the tool ( best if it is used on cheater pipe and not the tool itself) to hammer off the bolt. The important point that may have been missed here is that it seems like the hitting, tapping and shock ( thermal and mechanical) is the secret and use all the different options prior to stripping the nut or bolt.

Great info for the DIY guy or gal that gets into a bind with rusted or siezed nuts. I have used mose of these in the past with varied effectiveness. Also used impact hammer with shake and brake tool to help loosen the rust

Thank you so much dude. This is video is the most complete tutorial for removing stuck bolt i ever seen. So many methods. I succeeded with using pipe wrench.

Thanks for the cool techniques!

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing these tips to us. Usualy, i used to grab an hammer an hit the spanner, to allow the loosen for the bolt itself. I'm curius to use the ATF+acetone combo. If the problem is the rust, i've listened from a mechanic that he used to tight and the loose the bolt, few degrees, just to broke that the rust in it.

Great solutions for headaches. Seems like each one will work. Thanks for sharing.

Great video thanks. I have used these techniques with good success. I find that rust check is an excellent penetrating oil especially if you can let it sit over night. If possible you can put rusted assemblies into warm vinegar for a couple of days to remove rust, the hotter the better. I have done that with rust seized alternators and have gotten them working without any disassembly.

SPOT ON MATE!! thank you!!!

Thank you for your video. It saved us on a motorcycle build. Thank you

Like this a lot. An old mechanic friend of mine used to say "liquid steel can't hold torque".....so if it sTHAT bad, just heat it up until it flows away...🙂

excellent and comprehensive

Extraordinary detail ! Super helpful !! I learned lots !!! Thanks mate . 👊🏼 🔥

Great video with various techniques I didn't know about. Thank you

Excellent info right here! Got those bolts out with the pipe wrench method + a torch, thank you, you’re a life saver!

This was awesome!

Just started doing hvac and rusty bolts and shafts are the bane of my existence 😤

good video I learned a lot thank you, PATRICK

Thanks for your effort friend.

interesting re the Acetone/ATF mix.....i'll try that on my winter project !

EXCELLENT VIDEO, THE BEST!!!

Thanks Hank Hill, this is very helpful!

An excellent video. Thank you.

Very informative video. All in one video on rusted item removal. Thank you sir.

Best ways of removing nuts, Verymuch interesting, many many thanks.

I really didn't want to change the inner tie rod, but the adjustment nut was frozen on with rust from the 2000 Eldorado being in Wisconsin most of its life. With tips from this video, I soaked the nut in PB Blaster overnight then tried again. Still couldn't get the nut to move (Wenches, high torque impact driver, etc.). Then I tried heating the nut with a BernzOmatic followed with a douse in very cold water. Instead of trying to loosen, I instead tightened to try to break the nut free, and it did break pretty easily. Thanks Error Code Guy, I would never have thought of doing this!

Very good thank you. Also you can sometimes knock on a smaller size socket with a hammer and a scrap piece of ally or a mandrel on to a rounded nut. eg - 3/8ths can be forced on to a 10mm nut. Heat is best if you are not going to damage any surrounding area. If you are removing glow plugs on a diesel run the engine to got them hot first, works for me every time.

Excellent information Sir

. That was a great lesson on really useful experience.

Thanks much. Do you need to clean that rubber ( or plastic ) hose that the Acetone/AT fluid came out of ? If so, what ? Thanks.

Very great job and thanks for sharing with us

Great video, thanks

Great video. Thank you.

ATF + acetone. I didn't knew that one. Thank you.

Awesome tips!! Thanks a lot!!

I got my husband a fur-lined jockstrap for frozen nuts.

Brilliant‼️

I worked at an aircraft engine plant. Outer rings and nuts would be heated and dry ice (-109.3 F) would be placed against the bolt or inner surface. I know it might not be practical but it demonstrates how expansion and contraction can really loosen married items of metal.

Very very good tips...

Very helpful and interesting techniques indeed! 👍Thank you sir 🙏

Filing it down to the next size... My God how come I never think of such good yet obvious ideas

God bless you! i tried the heat up and cold water ,, it works perfectly

I switched up from.the wrench to other tools and that did it brother thanks so much 🙏 😊

8:35 Brilliant. I have never seen that technique before.

Thank you sir your video really gave me knowledge.

Wow 😮 Paraffin wax and auto ‘box oil are genius. Thanks so much. 🙏 I sometimes use a small rag, wrapped around the nut and then soak the rag with WD40 (as well as the nut prior to wrapping) and then leave for an hour. I then remove the rag, heat with a torch and try again. Sometimes it works and sometimes I cry 😭

Thank you only left if is a touch, got all the possibilities !

Hi Error, I am interested using method Number #5. I need to remove these rusted bolts on the exhaust under the car. Thank youtube for subtitles, I didn't know the heck you said and thought it was Kerosone lol. I am not familiar with Parrafin but I'm gonna look it up and hopefully I can buy one. I think I may need some help. I am doing a home job on my Mitsubishi Triton 4WD, doing it myself. I got the car on the stand, etc, so far so good. If I need to remove the rusted bolt on the exhaust which has 3x bolts a set at point A, B, C, D making it 12x bolts all up I think. One of the bolt set is elevated from a 45degree, a little tricky but can use the breaker and correct socket size to get to it. However, it is on a 45degree angle how would I use the Parrafin or is it better to use heat instead? In your video you have the nut and bolt on a flat surface but I need to remove it as if it is upside down? Hope that makes sense. Would really appreciate the good advice.

Thanks Bud I subbed - great video post and thumbs up!

Thanks for the great video and all the information

awesome ! thank you

Probably best video on subject. ✌From England ♑

Excellent

Great video, can't thank you enough!

When I used a Chester bar it became part of the 3/8 in Ratchet I was using at the time and is now the extension tool of choice

great video, thank you

Super good information

This helps out big time

Loved this..thanks man

great video

Awesome video!

Great vids man. Now I got so many options to ruin my bolts LMFAO. Cheers

Thank you so much for your advice. It’s been so helpful but the one problem I’m having is getting brake lines loose without tearing the you know the fitting up or getting it off in one piece and I do the things you talk about with the bolt, but is there any different procedure for brake lines on old cars?

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Candle wax is bloody good. It's like solid freeing oil which doesn't evaporate in a cloud of vapour if you've been heating the job. WD40 and GT85 or TF2 are crap. I was brought up before they were mainstream and I used Plus Gas, Holts Rustola, or Duckhams Duck Oil. Plus Gas is really good. It creeps and gets everywhere. It's like slightly oilier paraffin ( kerosene ). Even paraffin/kerosene on its own creeps well but doesn't lubricate so good.

great ideas...thanks

Men nice video,And I prefer the last way.

Am binge watching your channel after finding the vid on fuel problems. What an Aladdins Cave of ideas. Never seen the paraffin wax trick before.

gentleman , all the trics you explained are true but it is certainly useful under different situation i.e., position of bolts etc. a solution of sulfuric acid h2so4 is quite helpful to remove old rust that I have experienced subject to precautions.

Very interesting.

Aight noice!! Thx 4 that

Thank you made my day haha

I love this video. 100%

Do you use cemikal clean aceton or aceton with oil

Great Video. I am struggling to take a 1/8 hex set screw from the base (collet?) hub of an inducer motors where the squirrel cage blower wheel is rusted and gone. Any ideas are welcome. I tried PB blaster, heat.. (may be need to cycle it some more hot/cold like you suggested) It's destroyed a few 1/8 allen keys so far.

Great information ! My problem is lug nuts on a car, much harder to get to and a major pain in the _ _ _.

Is brake/clutch fluid equivalent to transmission fluid for this - the 5050 with acetone?

actually if you can heat the nut while being careful not to heat the bolt (on something big enough is the easiest way but adjust your torch size to the job) the inside diameter of the nut will expand, and can make it easier to extract. be careful though, if you heat the bolt equally it negates the effect. This is how rail car wheels are put on (a wheel is heated then allowed to cool on the axle creating a friction fit) (thanks physics 101 and 102 professor at my community college! You were bad ass Mr. Burkhart!)

I'm not a fan of the heating up red hot then dousing with water technique. Unless you like broken bolts and studs. Awesome video thought. A lot of great ideas to get off those stubborn fasteners. Cheers.

thanx i was trying to undo two parts of a little dremel-tool type thing. number 8 did it. i heated the thing up, then dipped it in icey cold water, didn't work. did it three more times, worked like a charm although i had tried everything before. now i just need to figure out how to prevent this from happening again. i don't know if you can get this anti-seeze thing in my country but maybe you can get something similar

This is great. I have a snapped off bolt head that is making me question all reality. Ran out of 4 letter words yesterday.

Very good. Room to work is always an issue. I like to use an air chisel rather than a hammer and chisel and when hitting a wrench with a hammer use a "Dead Blow" hammer. Removing rusty nuts is not the real trial though. The hard ones are bolts into a casting, like exhaust manifold bolts. For those you cant get penetrating oil into the threads. I cut the heads of with a carborundum disc on a die grinder, take off the manifold and heat each remaining stud individually, then ad penetrating oil. Whack them good with a hefty ball peen (strait on, not the sides and try to work them lose with vise grips. If they are still not coming loose, you can weld a good nut on them and keep trying. Heat will always help get penetrating oil down into the threads. Be generous with the oil. If you are using a torch, make sure not to use flammable P oil. WD40 is very flammable and not a very good penetrant IMO. Liquid Wrench is not flammable for one, there are others. If the part is still on the vehicle I prefer to use good heat gun vs torch. It takes longer but the fire dept doen't get involved. I have had very good luck with CRC Frezze Off. Best I ever used was Break Free in a pump bottle but haven't seen any for years. Used to use it on F-111's often back in the day.

Thanks

The blowtorch with the cold water works wonders

Men it's a lot of tip thanks

You’re the best

Methods worked well on nuts. But rusted bolts into threads you have to save inside threads, and replace with new bolts. Will try 6 point impact socket with breaker bar with pipe over it and more penetrant. But harder to get penetrant in when you just have the side bolt to get penetrant in. Am going to try a little heat on the part I am trying to save. But not a lot. Other ideas for when just the bolt head is showing ? Thank you for your post.

What method would you suggest for getting one off under the kitchen sink? My door to under the sink is very small so I can only get like one arm in at a time.. I tried a Basin wrench and it won't budge. Tried putting Liquid Wrench rust fighting fluid on it too. The problem is its a small nut, unscrews downwards, and my ability to access it is VERY limited. Maybe heat up with butane torch and then lift a full glass of cold water up to it to soak it in? HELP!

How does one remove seized bolts holding a crankshaft pulley if the pulley is deep set with the bolts hard to reach as with my 85 VW Golf? The M8 round socket heads are rounding off internally due to increased attempts at removal even when using a back and forth motion with the hex wrench. Cannot use vice grips due to the very tight confines. Been applying PB Blaster several times and pounding with a hammer to no avail.