Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:42:52 -0800
Reply-To:     Todd Last <rubatoguy@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Todd Last <rubatoguy@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Frozen axle nuts
Comments: To: John Rodgers <inua@QUICKLINK.NET>
Comments: cc: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Hmmm, I work for a HMO - I wonder if some liquid nitrogen would do an even
better job??
<BSG>

John Rodgers wrote:

> -- [ From: John Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
>
> Todd Last wrote:
>
> > If your axle nuts are frozen.........!!>>
>
> Try  some Marvels Mystery Oil (Not the top lube stuff....but the genuine
> penetrating oil -- Available throught ACE Hardware Stores and others......
> usual disclaimers!!) on those axle nuts. That has worked for me at times
> when nothing else would. If that doesn't do it,  try heating them, then
> apply  candle wax to the edge where the nut and threads contact. As the
> metal cools it sucks the wax down into the threads. Makes them  slick.
>
> One final thing to try. Once I had a problem nut on an airplane. I
> discharged a CO2 extinguisher on it and dropped the temperature of the nut
> and the bolt way down. Then I rapidly heated the nut, and put turning
> pressure on it while there was still temperature differential between the
> two.
>
>  It worked! But was kinda expensive, what with having to recharge the fire
> extinguisher.!
>
> Good luck.
>
> John Rodgers
> '88 GL Driver