Patent ID: 7261017
Filing Date: 2007-08-28
Classification: B25B

Abstract:
1. A tool for removal of a threaded fastener for a stabilizer link in a vehicle, said link fastened to the vehicle by a separate nut on the threaded fastener, said fastener having a head at one end and a generally non-circular cross section opposite end, said tool comprising, in combination: a first, generally annular socket having a throughbore with a nut engagement end and a second socket receiving end, said nut engagement end of said throughbore configured to engage and seat on the nut of said threaded fastener, said second socket receiving end of said throughbore having a generally uniform cross-sectional diameter, said nut engagement end coaxial with said second socket receiving end; a handle extending generally radially from the first socket and attached to said first socket generally at the second socket receiving end; and a second socket having a generally annular configuration with a throughbore and a generally uniform outside diameter, a socket drive end and a socket driven end, said socket driven end throughbore configured to seat on said opposite end of said fastener, said socket drive end throughbore configured to receive a socket drive, said outside diameter of said second socket generally less than the cross-sectional throughbore diameter of the first socket receiving end, whereby the first socket may be positioned on said nut and restrained from rotation by maintaining the handle in a generally fixed position and the second socket driven end may be engaged with the opposite end of said fastener and rotationally driven to unthread the nut from the threaded fastener, the axial dimension of the first socket comprised of the axial dimension of the nut engagement end and the axial dimension of the socket receiving end, and wherein the second socket has an axial dimension greater than the axial dimension of the first socket, and said second socket throughbore includes an intermediate section between the socket driven end and the socket drive end, said intermediate section having a diameter greater than the maximum radial dimension of the driven end of the second socket, said second socket slidably removable from the first socket.