12 point 12mm.

 

Silver Smith is right, and also, they are in there TIGHT!!!! Set the parking brake, put chocks in front of and behind the rear wheels, put your box end wrench on the bolt to loosen, and hit it with a 3 pound hammer to break it loose.

 

Hit it with an impact. :evil:

 

+1 for using an air impact gun! May need a heat treated wobble socket due to the odd angle you will have the tool at.

 

Impact or get it up on a lift, slide a 3ft piece of pipe over a 12mm box wrench and break them loose that way. Breaking them loose in the driveway can be TOUGH without air.

 

No impact wrench.. I tryed to get them off but it bent the socket

 

I got the car up on jack stands..an does anyone know do I have to take off the clutch clutch cable? Because I going to leave the bell on and try to just slip the tranny out

 

If you are leaving the bell on you don't need to mess with the clutch cable. Also, with a car that has a transmission with a separate bellhousing, that is how your remove them. Not sure why anyone would try to remove it all as one piece although you could. To remove the cable you pop the dust cover and push the fork forward as much as you can and slip the cable out. If you have a firewall adjuster you just loosen the cable and its stupid easy to remove.

For your driveshaft bolts. Spray them with Liquid Wrench the night before, then blast the first bolt with a propane torch, put a 12pt 12mm box wrench over the nut, slip a long piece of pipe over that and make sure you are going lefty loosey and it should come right off. I don't use sockets on the DS bolts, the box wrench/pipe setup gets you the best leverage and won't break.

 

Hi guys, I know this is an old thread, but this may help anyone removing these type driveshaft bolts. There are special sockets made just for these, and they're super nice. Impact type, two lengths, one is about 4 inches long, one is about 8 inches long. 1/2 inch drive, with a slender shank down to the 12mm 12pt socket driven end. These are actual driveshaft bolt sockets. Some other manufacturers use them as well, and you may find them in 10, 12, and 14mm, depending on what you're working on. They're designed to use with a 1/2 drive impact wrench, no swivel adapters or extensions needed. These take the fight right out of those bolts, use one once and you'll love it. I have several of them, and I got mine from Mac Tools and Snap On Tools. I was a dealership tech for many years, and I bought the majority of my tools from those two as well as Matco. I'm not positive whether you can get these from other sources, but you can just do a Google search for driveshaft bolt sockets, and they'll pop right up. I hope this helps!

 

....Snap On Tools....

 

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