stuzbot
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I tell you, if I was a racehorse, my nickname would be "Fell at First Fence"!
I thought I'd go out this evening and just loosen and re-tighten my wheel nuts. So they wouldn't give me any gyp when [weather permitting] I do the LBJs tomorrow.
My heart sank as I saw the crappy poundland locking wheel nuts on there, as they both looked rusted solid.
Anyway, I managed to free off the worst looking of the two, cleaned it up and torqued it back to spec ie. 120 Nm not eleventy-billion Nm as most garage hands armed with an air ratchet thinks they need. But, needless to say, when I moved onto the one which didn't look half so bad, things all went pear shaped.
The fecker wouldn't budge and, even leaning my bodyweight aginst the socket to keep it pushed tight against the nut, it cammed out as I was trying to turn it. I got my impact driver and tried that, several times for a good minute at a time. But all that did was make a load of noise and elongate the holes in the nut even more. So now there's no chance of the socket staying put without camming out...
So, anyone got any fullproof tips for getting one of these buggers out?
Grrrrr!!!
I thought I'd go out this evening and just loosen and re-tighten my wheel nuts. So they wouldn't give me any gyp when [weather permitting] I do the LBJs tomorrow.
My heart sank as I saw the crappy poundland locking wheel nuts on there, as they both looked rusted solid.
Anyway, I managed to free off the worst looking of the two, cleaned it up and torqued it back to spec ie. 120 Nm not eleventy-billion Nm as most garage hands armed with an air ratchet thinks they need. But, needless to say, when I moved onto the one which didn't look half so bad, things all went pear shaped.
The fecker wouldn't budge and, even leaning my bodyweight aginst the socket to keep it pushed tight against the nut, it cammed out as I was trying to turn it. I got my impact driver and tried that, several times for a good minute at a time. But all that did was make a load of noise and elongate the holes in the nut even more. So now there's no chance of the socket staying put without camming out...
So, anyone got any fullproof tips for getting one of these buggers out?
Grrrrr!!!