Pinch Bolt Extraction tool. KL-0250-40

[peter goble]

Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone on here has one of these tools that would hire it out or knows somewhere that hires it out (I'm in the Merseyside area). Alternatively if I was to buy one would there be any interest in hiring it????

[dan2485]

Im not sure if that tool is for the A6 C6 onwards as the bolt is the other way round, i believe it was for the earlier models.

Crasher mentioned this in this post Solved... 4F top arm bolt removal

[Crasher]

Yes I have got that tool but it is for the steel uprights used on the Passat 3B, A4 8D and A6 4B, there is a different tool for the A4 8E and A6 4F but it is utterly useless, mine just kept slipping off and stripping its thread so I threw it in the back of the cupboard where it remains gathering dust, it cost over £500 from memory. Tellingly this was dropped from the KLANN range and replaced by the http://www.klann-online.de/en/Servic...8/Default.aspx. These days we class the upper links as consumables and heat the bolt up to release it BUT with a naked flame the aluminium breaks down and cracks so we use an induction heater.

As an aside, the KL-0250-40 is an awful thing to use and I would not let any of my mechanics use it after it was damaged numerous times.

[peter goble]

That drill out tool looks a bit tricky, no guarantee the drill is not going to run off.

[Crasher]

That is why no mechanic in their right mind would use it to save a few cheap ally upper links.