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The little leather strap that hold the rear seat back up in place broke off on the passenger side of my 911. To replace it, the seat back has to come off. Two little easy to remove Phillips screws, pull back the liner, remove a strap, and then.....
Remove a large bolt that is a slotted large screw head. So out comes the the new hammer screw driver. After lots of pounding, no movement at all. So I try the big mama looka screw driver and a crescent wrench for added torque, nope. I can't push it in hard enough to get the screw driver to bite. I don't want to keep trying and bugger up the slot.
I looked at the end of the hammer screw driver. It has an neat attachment that is a standard socket wrench 1/2 inch drive that hold a screw driver bit. Hmmmmmm.
Get out the big gun! So I fired up the air compressor and let it pressure up to 120 and put the 600 pound feet maximum impact wrench on low, and push into the screw hard. Brapp brapp, the screw yielded to my will. It back right out. I have little doubt it has been in place some the car was built in 1985. It had a slight surface corrosion or rust on the barrel of the bolt.
Amazing how easy it is with the right tools. Impossible otherwise.
I can now turn a screw with real POWER! Arf Arf Arf.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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