The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Driveline So how the heck do you get a wrench on the front bleed screws?

I'd like to change the brake fluid in my '69 C-10...if only I could get a @#$% wrench on the front bleed screws! Never mind an open-end wrench, a socket, or a bleed screw offset wrench. There's simply not enough room between the screw and the wheel structure (or whatever you call it!) to get a wrench on it.

So how do I turn that screw?

None of these would work?
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/tools.asp?tool=all&Group_ID=675713&store=snapon-store

Grigg, thanks for your response! I have 1 much like the first one pictured, but no matter what I try, I cannot get a wrench to seat on the screw because of how close the screw is to the housing. Nothing can get around the screw well enough.

To me it seems if I had a very thin-walled socket I might make something happen.

On my 67 the bleed screws have the hex part on an extended version of the common bleed screws. Try NAPA for some and remove the old ones with a set of vice grips. Put them on any thing you can get to. But get the other screws first cause they are gonna get boogerd bad.

I jacked one side up, took the wheel off, turned the hub so the front was pointing out, that gave ME enough room to easily get a smalll 3/8in wrench on the bleed screw.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#catalog/119/2747/=p6wyki

You may have to grind it a bit if it hits the hub, but here is a potential option.

Thanks, R-Bo!

Now that I have never seen!

McMaster and Carr are great. I will order something in the afternoon and it will be on the front porch the next day. Atlanta - Charlotte. Even 10' lengths of metal.

And they have quite the selection. Better than Fastenal for bolts, in my opinion.