After spending 3 hours trying expensive tools and strap wrenches I called my 63 year old dad who just knows things. My Lexus 2003 LX 470 was bouncing down the road like a pogo stick for 6 months and I finally had enough. I didn't want to spend the quoted $3000 at the dealership, so I purchased 2 new front and 2 new rear OEM AHC accumulators from Japan on Ebay. After properly bleeding the AHC system, I started in the rear and the accumulators came off clean with a 36 mm fan wrench. The fronts were a different story, the fan wrench kept slipping (previously stripped) off of the accumulator. I spent the next 3 hours trying a $17 strap wrench from NAPA, a pair of $45 channellock xslim adjustable wrench, and a $12 plastic and rubber Pennzoil strap wrench. I broke the Pennzoil rubber strap wrench, couldn't get the NAPA strap wrench to work in the tight space, and the channelllocks just slipped off the same way as the fan wrench. After talking to my dad who is a retired Lt. Col. ARMY veteran who just knows things (also a mechanic before entering the service), he came up with a solution that took 15 min. Pictured below I drilled a shallow hole with a 1/2in bit in the old accumulator. Using a brass drift punch, at an angle I smacked the end of the drift a couple times with a hammer. It immediately broke loose. Lesson learned, lots of prayer and reaching out to people who are smarter than you!
I hope this is a newer solution that helps someone, I searched and couldn't find this advice anywhere, I'm sure it's out there somewhere and maybe even on this forum somewhere.
I hope this is a newer solution that helps someone, I searched and couldn't find this advice anywhere, I'm sure it's out there somewhere and maybe even on this forum somewhere.
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