Be real nice and somebody will send you a couple of studs or you can get them for about $4.00 each from VW. Stan On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:45:21 -0800 Tom Young <tomyoung1@ATTBI.COM> writes: > Hi all: > > Wilson's book on rebuilding the air-cooled VW engine states that the > torque > for the nut that holds the rocker arms to the stud is 18 ft.-lbs. > which sure > *seemed* like a lot given the small size of the nut, but I didn't > question > it until..... the second of the nuts I snugged down began to "stop > tightening" even though I continued to crank on it. (Looking at the > Bentley > manual - too late! - revealed that it's really supposed to be > tightened to > 11 ft.-lbs.) When I reversed the nuts holding this particular > rocker down > the nuts didn't come out - the studs did! > > So, I went down and got the M10 nuts I needed, double-nutted the > stud, and > succeeded in getting one of rocker arm nuts off. But the other nut > is > stripped and just spins. I know there's "nut-cracker" tools you can > use in > this case, but I'd rather not go buy this for a one-time deal. I've > got > cold chisels and hack saws and all kind of implements of > destruction; how do > I use these items to get this nut off? > > TIA. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Tom Young '81 Vanagon > Lafayette, CA 94549 '82 Westfalia > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com |
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