Cannot get Gate Hinge Bolts off

[longfiredragon]

Do you have a wife at home? Use her blow dryer, heat the bolts, tap the bit in. Then in my opinion use/get a hand impact. Maybe harbor freight. Hand impacts are designed to rotate as you smack the back of them with a hammer, and it should spin it loose.

Used correctly I can about guarantee you a hand impact will break them free on the first strike of the hammer. You shouldn't have to hit it that hard either, so as not to damage the gate.

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[zw470]

Mine wouldn't budge with a 1/2" Kobalt cordless impact, then came loose almost immediately with a short breaker-bar. Since then I've joined the M18 master race, but I would be interested in seeing how these tools handled the bolts.

 

[Red Willy]

This is what I've used on many uncooperative bolts and screws.

 

[Bill_P]

I had the same issue installing a jack bracket. What everyone said above worked for me. Take your Torx 55 and hammer it in and put a breaker bar on it. The hand impact wrench is a good idea as well. I initially had the wrong size Torx and bratted the bolt a little but after a whack with a hammer the right Torx bit seated and it popped right off with a breaker bar.

 

[Dr. RGB]

I had the same issue installing a jack bracket. What everyone said above worked for me. Take your Torx 55 and hammer it in and put a breaker bar on it. The hand impact wrench is a good idea as well. I initially had the wrong size Torx and bratted the bolt a little but after a whack with a hammer the right Torx bit seated and it popped right off with a breaker bar.

I was just about to write the same exact thing. The T55 didn't seem to fit, so I used the next size down and the bolt started to strip. Took the T55, hammered that thing in, used a breaker bar and it worked, thankfully.

Then I had a beer.... then another.

 

[Jcoats]

Ha thanks everyone. Good to know t55 is the right one. I did order impact driver and heat gun. So between those and a hammer surely I can get them out.

 

[Jcoats]

Just to close this out - ended up tapping t55 torx into bolt with a hammer as some of you suggested and used a breaker bar - worked like a charm. I had used the impact driver but it didn’t work.

 

[Rangemaster]

Just to close this out - ended up tapping t55 torx into bolt with a hammer as some of you suggested and used a breaker bar - worked like a charm. I had used the impact driver but it didn’t work.

Glad it worked out.

 

[garykk]

This is what I use. https://www.toolnut.com/makita-xwt1...t-wrench-w-friction-ring-anvil-tool-only.html
not much it can’t take off or tighten.

 

[Jcoats]

This is what I bought that didn’t help.

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