Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:38:43 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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Subject: Re: tool find
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hi ..
actually thinkingabout this more..
it's been so long since I had to do any 'backyard' method on holding the
wheel from turning while undoing that big nut.
Back in the 70's it was put it in gear,
have a friend stand on the brakepedal..
put the parking brake on ,
and chock the wheel ..
that often was suffeicient, but not always.
these days i have an actual holder tool ....a section of an old wheel ..
a mercedes steel one actually ..with a stout T-section bar welded to it,
about two feet long.
Things ain't goin' anywherewith that setup.
as Isaid ..I have seen that nut on their just tightern' you can imaginea
few times.
for sure ..
make sure the whole shebang works now rather than later .
scott
On 9/29/2013 1:01 PM, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
> I do have an old Triumph motorcycle fork tube that has served well as my cheater in the past, but it may not be long enough for breaking this nut loose. I probably need to try it to make sure the whole shebang works. Don't want to find out in a crunch that I'm not as prepared as I thought I would be.
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> Stephen
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> From: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
> To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: tool find
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> nice find.
> nowyou need a good long, about 3 feet, solid cheater bar to use with your two new tools.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> scott
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> On 9/29/2013 4:01 AM, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
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> 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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