Removing a stubborn rear A frame, and some tool information! 

I don't own a LandRover,bikes are my thing,but you have no idea how much I have learned from your channel. Every problem you solve throws up tips/advice that transfer to anything I might come across. Cheers!👍

As someone else has previously mentioned, grinding the shoulder off a socket does work...

Totally unrelated to this video but you have helped me so many times with troubles with my defender so much so that anytime anything bothers me or gets screwy i know you have a video about it and i sigh in relief that i can probably fix it myself and not waste time going to mechanics.

Hi I use a crow foot for the hand brake cable under the seat box I think it’s a 21mm one

in french it is called the same "pied de corneille" , use comes from plumbers !! great usefull tools

A week to late. I spent a full day getting that ruddy A Frame off and changed. A terrible job I really don’t want to do again in a hurry. Another great video. Thanks.

I've still got a hacked up spanner I made years ago for replacing coolant sensors on old early efi BMW's without taking the intake off, very rusty now haha

Glad to know what I can use those crow’s feet tools are for. Picked up a set from an estate sale and never really knew what I was going to use them for. Now I know!!!!

Don't you love it when a plan comes together.

Lifetime warranty on the spanner until you torch it and bend it. Total lifetime: about 2 hours. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

That's a great idea drilling that nut I've never tried that before I usually just use a die grinder with a couple of cheap Chinese diamond bits but I like that drill deal👍🏻🇭🇲

Yep I had to buy a 30mm spanner just for that nut, and use another spanner on the end of that as well it was so tight. They must use a veeery long spanner at the factory.

There is a company that sells tools in Canada that you should get to know called Princess Auto. If you need a 30mm offset wrench for one job a year, this is the place. (And greetings from a former Lennoxviller.)

Thanks for the tips young Mike 😀 it's skills like yours can only be learnt from doing 😀

Another great video thanks Mike 👍

That ball-joint was one of the first things I changed on my ‘97 Disco. What makes it a nightmare is that silly housing over the nut blocking access. The bent wrench idea is brilliant!

Great job Mike. I had the garage replace mine as didn’t fancy the defender dropping on my head. Replaced all my bushings underneath with oem and glad I did it except for replacing the exhaust mounts with genuine parts which was a mistake as the car vibrates more than it ever did now! Now I know why it had a big, soft, bmw mount on it…

La douillé de 30 elle passe aisément, + clé à choc . No problème😊

Those crow's foot spanners are the duck's guts. Mine are made by GearWrench. Bought a set to do the top transmission cooler pipe on an Auto Disco 2. Wish I had them years ago.

Mike, I had to change the front wheel bearings on my wife’s Mini Cooper the other day, it was like working on a go cart, nothing to hit with a hammer, chisel or blow torch….

You're certainly correct Mike, "if you own one of these Defenders you need the special tools, because you ARE going to be working on it ALL the time", lol. I have a 30mm AF "King Dick" flogging spanner,(short and stout), to do those 'A frame' ball joint nuts on RRC and D1's, fit perfectly with a bit of radius grinding on the ring. With that you can just shear the split pin off.

Another great video. These Crowsfoot Spanners can be a godsend. There are also some slimmer ones that allow more access between nested pipe fittings. I think that Proto make some good ones on your side of the pond. I have a mixture including costly individuals from Stahlwille that I get as needed, but they make the job nicer to do. The other addition is a lock on extension so that the drive assembly can't come apart when you lift it up to rotate it...

like most people who have tinkered with cars for decades , i have a drawer full of spanners that have been ' reshaped ' for one specific purpose ... can i remember what each one is for ?? nope ... will i ever bin them ?? again nope

I had fun and games. With mine. Last year. Could not get the bolts out of the bushes. I had to cut them out. I was there for hours.Did it in the end. Don’t Won’t to do that job again 😡

I had an offset 30mm when I was first on the tools, about 50 years ago! I think the make was Gedore, perhaps they’re still available. Worth a look.

I had the same problem with my disco 1 and managed to get a small cutting disc at an angle across the nut and then used a chisel to crack it off. The other end of the A-frame was worse than yours here because the brackets were the directly welded on type, the cross member having a round profile. With no space for sockets or grinder, I had to use a finger sander (took ages) to remove the excess rusty bolt ends and clean up the nut edges, then used a blow torch and two extra long spanners linked together.

I had to chop down a brand new spanner to change the fuel stop solenoid on my 300tdi, felt good!

Again sometging new. Thanks King Mike. Can you buy croford spaners induvidualy. Cheers Mike 🥃

More arms on the new ones, but probably easier access??

I knocked up a distributed wrench that way for and old car I was working on

You are like me that falling part something tdo with gravity. Yes forget health an safety but you luckey not to be hurt... we live an learn or do we...

A ground down socket does indeed work on the ball joint nut. Right bugger getting it to the right torque though.

Mike. Do it once-do it right by AC Delco ! Ever tried to rebuild the old 'Boge' self leveling units for earlier A-frames ? V.

What I would do is put an axle stand under the pinion flange and let the ramp down that should give some twist and some room

If you do not expect to need to use that spanner again Mike would it not be a idea to leave it in the truck for the guy who owns it should he have problems with that bush again just a thought.

Im gunna need therapy after that squadron leader.. and im norr sure sophies ready furr rummaging threw ya draws .. burrt then agins winters coming ...pip pips 😍😎😁

I’ve tryed to fit a new fulcrum ball joint, I recon it’s impossible unless uve got a 100 ton press 🤣

Hi Mike 👋 just saying thanks again 👍 more great tip 👍oh have you heard 😃 nufc takeover yet 🤔 richest club in the Premiership 😃 been waiting 14 years for this day 😀 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🚌🚌🚌

Would a 30mm crowfoot fit that awkward a frame nut? Crescent make decent stuff, have some of their pass through sockets and unusual ratchet spanner’s

Is a crows foot spanner the answer to tightening the nut on the bonnet release cable I wonder?

Amazon deliveries are getting slow there Mike? Don't tell me you have a shortage of drivers in Canada too? Crows feet are great, they can be put onto a torque wrench and used in places that you can't get a socket. Enjoyed that video. I have bought some stainless steel split pins to try, any thoughts? I assume because they don't rust they will be good but am I falling for marketing? Will I have a problem later because they are too strong to snap or drill. Everyone's thoughts are welcome.

Mike what do you think of the torque specs on those bolts that go through the monster ball joint? I feel like I almost snapped mine when i did the job

A 30mm crows foot with a breaker bar would have been useful on the A frame joint.