{"id":1490,"date":"2015-09-09T01:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2015-09-09T01:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:47:12","slug":"cool-tools-universal-steering-knuckle-spreader-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/cool-tools-universal-steering-knuckle-spreader-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Tools: Universal Steering Knuckle Spreader Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning on replacing a front strut on certain Audis, BMWs, or VWs, you need this tool. It&#8217;s great for cars where the base of the front strut is held in the steering knuckle by a pinch-bolt (and, in most cases it seems, rust and years of grime.)\u00a0If there&#8217;s room to get a screw-driver into the slot to pry, then this will work better (sorry MINI.) If you&#8217;ve ever struggled to free one with PB-blaster, a large screw-driver, and will-power, you&#8217;ve inevitably thought, there must be a tool for this.\u00a0 Well there is and it will cost you $69.95 which may be the tool-bargain of the century.\u00a0 It&#8217;s from SPC Performance and it&#8217;s part <a href=\"https:\/\/store.specr53.com\/products\/spc-performance-steering-knuckle-tool.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">number 37980<\/a>. \u00a0Watch this video by SPC to see how it&#8217;s used.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YHZ4v8SB3OE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re planning on replacing a front strut on certain Audis, BMWs, or VWs, you need this tool. It&#8217;s great for cars where the base of the front strut is held in the steering knuckle by a pinch-bolt (and, in most cases it seems, rust and years of grime.)\u00a0If there&#8217;s room to get a screw-driver &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/cool-tools-universal-steering-knuckle-spreader-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cool Tools: Universal Steering Knuckle Spreader Tool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,14,21],"tags":[257,261,274],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmw","category-diy","category-mini","category-vw","tag-spc","tag-steering-knuckle","tag-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_4053.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}