special tool required?

varmint · Sep 26, 2006

Guys: the problem with a regular wrench is access- this fitting is really only open to a socket- a crow's foot wrench might work, but you know how tight these pipe thread fittings can be that aren't intended to be removed. Anyway, I have "made" a tool to get at it, I think: took a 3/4" drive 1 5/16" socket (to get around the 34mm part) and made two steel "plates" that fit across socket flats (backed up with some steel shims, so they won't distort under load) that give me the 24mm apart parallels I need to turn out this fitting. Used hot melt glue to keep everything in place, since once I get it on, they aren't going anywhere. I can take some fotos when I get back to it. Oughta work.
We don't have a close-by Kubota dealer- to gentrified around here, I guess, for farm stuff, and anyway, my experience has been they are loath to loan tools, unless you have a good relationship, which I don't.
The newer tractors use a 1 3/8" hex socket to get the old fitting off, according to the instruction sheet that came with the heater plug.

Soundguy · Sep 26, 2006

I think you are off an running.. that socket bushing'd up with the metal ought to do fine.. I've done the very same before.

Soundguy

RobJ · Sep 26, 2006

I just remembered these things... Not sure how big they are made. Pictured is only up to a 15mm...

firemanpat2910 · Sep 26, 2006

RobJ, my mother gave me some of those once, I politely thanked her and put them in my truck. Thinking the whole time that I would throw it away the next time I cleaned out the tool box. She and Dad are always buying me cheap stuff from auctions and junk sales that they go to. Danged if I didnt have a broken fitting on a $80,000.00 printing press a couple of days later and that tool worked perfectly to remove and replace it. Saved 4+ hours of dismantling, and readjusting the press. I should have never told my parents though,, now they buy even more junk for me.