>I got up, the socket was still sitting on the axle nut as though this entire event >hadn't occurred. Looking around, I retrieved the breaker-bar from under the >bus... Yes Volks, the driver nib was still in the socket...sheared >clean off as though someone had cut it. Determined not to let this >little set back ruin an otherwise "good" day, I immediately found an >optimistic angle to the situation: "Hey, not everyone has sheared off >a 3/4" drive breaker-bar...especially without using a length of pipe."
Nice work! I've got two broken bars I leave sitting around, just to remind myself what fun a bus is. The cheap ratchet one looks like a really mean medieval weapon, with it's curved, broken, splined head. After my third bar, I ended up taking the swivel head bar (broken) to a welder and had them put a full bead around the head with a bolt through the middle. Hasn't broken since, and has removed many rear axle nuts, with a 4' long heavy square steel extension. It also does gland nuts that are solidly green-locktighted in place with ease, once the engine is held down properly. Eug, '71
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