i'm using a 12mm and ratchet to loosen the KS bolt but it's so ****en tight!!!!! and ideas to how to loosen it?

 

Just keep at it - you have a 12mm univ socket on there right?

Go drink a protein-shake and some spinach quiche and try again! it will break loose eventually.

 

What i did with ~ 14" of extensions and a universal joint and a shallow 12mm socket was fish the extension in there and seat the socket (have someone hold a flashlight so you can see in there, it's actually pretty easy to get the socket seated like this.)

hold it very still and pivot it as HIGH AS POSSIBLE! That's very important, it seems that it gets just enough angle that the u-joint will work. put the ratcher into the extension if it isnt already and yank on it real fast .. once it's loose it's very easy.

The hard part is getting the bolt back into the new knock sensor... luckily my girlfriends hands are small enough to fit in there and she got it in for me

 

i'm still working at it. It's pissin me off!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH turn bi*ch, turn!!!

 

i set the socket on the bolt with the ratchet attached, while holding the ratchet straight and steady, i used a long flathead screwdriver to pry between the ratchet and a thin metal bracket that was right in the perfect spot near the end of the ratchet(leverage is power). one quick snap and it came out with my fingers the rest of the way.

 

thx, i'll try that, i'll be back in 10 mins, screw it, i'm bring the laptop outside

 

Stop being a WAB ...

Use the handle from a floor jack as a breaker bar I do that everytime.

 

got the bolt off, woo hoo, but how do you take off the sensor from the harness?

and i heard a "beep" sound when i removed the old sensor, is that normal?

 

never mind, got that working

 

VVRRROOOOOMMMMM!!!! Damn, i really miss the car in its normal state!

thanks guys

 

wd40????? should work