At 05:07 PM 1/28/2009, Mike S wrote: >Those things work, I've used them, but they are hard on bearings.\ But with a nice long handle you don't have to pound them, just pull and/or jump on the handle. The nice thing about them is there's no offset like you get with a socket. The handle I put one, btw, was about five feet of half-inch plate four or five inches wide. I did have to heat it and bend a small offset into it to clear the bodywork.
-- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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