Buy a 60 inch length of 1 1/4' Sched 40 black iron pipe from Home Depot or Lowes for under $20. Mike B. On 9/29/2013 2:37 PM, Scott Daniel wrote: > nice find. > nowyou need a good long, about 3 feet, solid cheater bar to use with > your two new tools. > > even standing on the end of a very stout 3 1/2 long cheater bar > sometimes in not enough to unscrew that mutha. > I've had to heat a few of those nuts ( like one out of dozen or so ) .. > in one extreme case ..even with heating ...the nut galled the threads on > the stub axle taking the nut off. Both nut and stub axle were ruined. > That only happened once in dozens of years though. > > it's good to take things like the rear axle nut and flange apart once in > a great while ..make sure their not seized badly with rust etc. > > scott > > > > On 9/29/2013 4:01 AM, Stephen Grisanti wrote: >> I'm not looking forward to ever needing the 46mm socket for the big >> rear axle nut, but have always kept that measurement (and its >> standard 1 13/16" equivalent) in mind in case I trip over one, which >> I recently did. Of course, after buying I find that NAPA stocks the >> non-metric one for $25 (on sale this week for $16!) but that Ohio >> antique mall was fairly boring until I hit a huge booth full of tools >> and the $5 find that is now living under the back seat of the '87 >> Westy with its new Harbor Freight 3/4" drive breaker bar. >> |
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