Roy, Before you cut it off, try this: buy a 3/4" flex handle from Sears, get a 4 foot long piece of pipe that will fit over the end of the flex handle. Set it in position with the socket on the nut, and stand and bounce a little on the end. That will generate something like 600-750 ft. lbs. of torque on the nut....it will come off!! And if that's not enough, get a passing stranger to stand on it with you. You may have so much torque that the wheel will spin, but that's another problem.... Flex handles are much tougher than and ratchets, and with Sears, if it breaks, which it won't, they'll give you a new one. What helps is having a slow steady increase in true torque. As opposed to say, banging with a hammer or bouncing on a short handle. BTW I have found that the nuts "look" like they're fused to the drum on those axles. If you don't have access to a Sears, the have a 800 number and you can mail order it. Tools are the one thing Sears still will mail odrer.
James
>ar was 3/4" drive...that's what amazed I! I broke a >1/2" drive one today attacking the nut again. > >I am half tempted to get another nut and cut this one off.... > >Bugs & Things & Bricks...Oh, my! > >Roy ----------------------------------------------------------- James Cohen New York City, and Williamstown Ma Alternate address: stirling@aol.com (which gets checked more often) Red '93 Corrado VR6 SLC (Highly modified) Red '87 GTI (mostly modified) and '67 deluxe split window (9 pass.) '71 Westy Breadloaf (high performance engine B&B) 81 (for Sale),'85 Westy Vanagons '83 9 passanger Vanagon '66, '74 busses (decomposing) ----------------------------------------------------------
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