RE: Any advice, tips, encouragement would be appreciated!
That is why you by "mod wrenches" from harbour freight. I have wrenches from there that are heated, bent, welded, etc just to make something fit. That is a snap-on selling point!!! Sounds like they got you too!!!!! I can mod a three dollar wrench that will work just as good and not have to worry about losing a $30 wrench!!!!! To each is his own!!