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Originally Posted by speed racer
I'm learning the hard way that for the first time you should always use a 6 point socket or box wrench. I stripped the bolt on the idle pulley twice already and every time I used a 12 point. Worse thing I've done since that 14mm bolt is super soft. Its completely stripped now. The only way to take it off is to torch it and I'm not even sure the shop can do that with the engine in the car.
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Bumping a thread that's over two years old!
Dig it. Yeah that bolt is pathetic. I stripped mine a couple of years ago and had a Nissan tech replace it. I think he torched it off and I don't think it's that hard to do. Yes it's cramped in there but there's room to get a torch in.