Froze caliper bleeder screw

The underside of that thing looks worse than my '88 New Yorker - and I'm in central Ontario. Can't get much more salt-belt than that.

try a brand new tubing nut wrench from your auto parts store, get one that is made in america, not india or china or taiwan.....yes spray it with brake clean or wd40, clasic naval jelly brand penitrating should do the trick heat it with a blow dryer or portable heater overnite. get a buddy to tap the caliper rapidly with a small hammer while you try to turn it with a new TUBING NUT WRENCH, try vise grip brand vise grips, give up ? drill it out and screw an EASYOUT into the old one.

|On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:45:30 -0600, Lawrence Glickman | wrote: | |>Out of sight, out of mind. |>

|>40,000 deaths on America's highways every year. Some percentage of |>those have to be from brake failure. To put that in perspective, |>12,000 Tangos died in Operation Iraqi Freedom. | |400,000 a year from tobacco - but we don't spend $87 billion fighting |that either.

Life is a cheap commodity. Lg

Unless you can blame the loss of it on a politician (deservedly or un-deservedly) or get a lawyer to sue for it. Then it becomes quite valuable. In fact, when you do that, the public even sits up and takes notice.

|>Life is a cheap commodity. |>Lg | |Unless you can blame the loss of it on a politician (deservedly or |un-deservedly) or get a lawyer to sue for it. Then it becomes quite |valuable. In fact, when you do that, the public even sits up and |takes notice. | |400K people quietly choking to death in Hospital beds ? Nope, |that doesn't get much notice by itself.

I don't know if you are old enough to remember this, but tobacco products used to be Heavily marketed on television. And on billboards, in magazines, anywhere and everywhere you looked, as a way of relaxing, like having a drink. Repercussions of health were known back then but covered up by Big Business. There was too much money involved, and probably still is.

Then Cyclamates, ( artificial sweeteners ) in the food industry were linked to cancer. I believe those have been done away with. Why does tobacco stick around? Because it brings in a lot of Tax Revenues to States in the form of the *sin tax.* Just like Casino gambling, the only one's who really win are "the house." But gambling is approved of because it brings in money for The State. ANYTHING to make a buck.

Now back to the frozen caliper. It is too cold outside for me to play with my newer car. But I think they are painted cast iron. I know the wheels are painted aluminum, or such ( says so on the invoice ).

I don't envy anybody doing brake service in this weather. I live on the southern tip of Lake Michigan and it is horrible here this time of year. I don't envy anybody doing anything to their cars in this weather. I put air in my tires yesterday. That was enough ;-\

Everybody should schedule car work around the Seasons up here. Do the nasty stuff during the summer months, and just the oil and oil filter during winter. OTOH, I've had to change out a leaking radiator in an unheated garage in the middle of one winter. That was misery. And a starter motor out in the snow, likewise.

Lg