Date:         Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:43:10 -0500
Reply-To:     James Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         James Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: tool find
Comments: To: Zeitgeist <gruengeist@GMAIL.COM>
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Dang

Jim

> On Sep 29, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Zeitgeist <gruengeist@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> In the past I've used the 20' aluminum mast from my old Sunfish to break free the rear axle nuts on a T1...it just barely worked
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Sep 29, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> 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.
>>>