What do you call those spanners

[monkeyboy]

Those ring spanners with a gap in - so as you can slip them over items (such as the temp sensor in this case) where a wire comes out the top. I could make one myself but I know you can buy them. I just can't think what they are called. Claws? Don't think so.. A Crow foot would do it but I'd prefer a spanner

ta for any help

 

[Shep]

I call them brake pipe spanners

 

[robc]

I would call them a bloody good idea. I too needed one at the weekend to remove the oil temp. sensor. I even tried to make a spanner out of some steel bar but it didn't work.

If someone does know what they're called and where I can get some please post soon. My front left indicator fell off the other week which was tricky to get back on because of the wire.

Regards

Rob C

 

[cookie]

flare nut spanner

 

[robc]

30 seconds with google showed me this:

http://www.toolbank.com/p/C10324/STW249X11

 

[monkeyboy]

10 seconds would have showed me that too - if I had known their name...

Thanks though - that is close to what I am after. I, like you, are trying to remove the temp sensor without removing the oil feed on top of a GS block. This is the puppy I need

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/17mm-X-19mm-Elora-Metric-Flare-Nut-Spanner-04551-Draper-121

30 seconds with google showed me this:

http://www.toolbank.com/p/C10324/STW249X11

 

[Stewart H]

I needed a flare nut spanner to swap my oil temp sensor too

Stewart

 

[Vern]

Why don't you just unplug it,then thread the lead through your ring spanner.Worked for me

 

[Welshman]

Why don't you just unplug it,then thread the lead through your ring spanner.Worked for me

Simplistic Bugger, much too cheap and no new toys!!!!

 

[bowser]

Especially as if your going to swap the sensor then you will have to unplug it at some point anyway.

 

[brassmonkey001]

Why don't you just unplug it,then thread the lead through your ring spanner.Worked for me

Why not get a hacksaw and ruin a perfectly good ring spanner instead?

 

[Wrigsby1]

Why not get a hacksaw and ruin a perfectly good ring spanner instead?

Yip, I have an 8mm spanner that is now a 9 and a 10 that became an 11mm bor the blessed brake bleeders!

 

[monkeyboy]

Why don't you just unplug it,then thread the lead through your ring spanner.Worked for me

Errmmmm I tried that, but the connector would not go through the ring.

 

[Vern]

Well,you're doing something wrong then,because the two I've done fit alright

 

[Stewart H]

Errmmmm I tried that, but the connector would not go through the ring.

I had the same thing, a nice cranked 19mm ring spanner looked just right, then the flare nut job came to my rescue

Stewart

 

[MattW]

I've a compartment in one of my tool boxes which holds thirty years worth of 'customised' spanners - you can do anything with a grinder, a vice and a lump hammer

 

[robc]

I had to resort to feeding the connector through the spanner. It was a tight fit but I went through in the end.

I prefer to buy new tools though. I didn't know about flare spanners and I didn't want to buggar up my only 19mm ring spanner. So, I wandered down to B&Q and bought a steel bar and a bench grinder to see if I could make one. I failed but I do now have a bench grinder to play with

Now, where are those blunt kitchen knives.......

Regards

Rob C

 

[scots_jon]

IIRC, the connector is a bit tight on the 19mm ring, but if you trim the corners very slightly with a stanley knife it goes fine. I acctually have a full set of flare spanners but used a normal ring for reasons that currently escape me.

 

[Ogmios]

I've a compartment in one of my tool boxes which holds thirty years worth of 'customised' spanners - you can do anything with a grinder, a vice and a lump hammer

oh, - so you've seen my Guzzi then?