Inner Tie Rod Wrenches

[squabeggz]

I'm in the process of rebuilding my front end. I've watched just about every video [MENTION=120071]mtbtim[/MENTION] has made. Thanks man! Your vids are the perfect supplement to the FSM.
Anyways, I watched his recent one about replacing the ITREs where he bought a couple of slim adjustable wrenches to properly stabilize the rack while cranking on the ITRE.

I just wanted to share another set of wrenches that worked awesome for me. The pair is cheaper than Tim's adjustables and give you a full seat on the contact patches, but the trade off is that there are not as many other uses for them. Anyways, it's just another option.

I bought 2 Stanley Proto metric thin service wrenches.
J3542M and J3530M. $38 & $34. These are 42mm and 30mm wrenches that are only about 9\32" thick. The one easily solved problem was that they are too short, so to get leverage, I used a couple lengths of 1" ID pipe I had laying around. Worked perfectly.

Here's a couple of pics of the setup.

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[mtbtim]

Good tool options Bro. I like it. I saw wrenches like this but steered away from them due to the length. Good to know they hold up when utilizing cheater pipes.

I think I'll link this thread in the video to give people another option for tools.

Thanks!

 

[squabeggz]

30mm also works really well for the OTRE jam nut.

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