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 209 Posts Member #: 6451 Senior Member South East Northumberland |
7th Jun, 2010 at 08:27:13pm
On 3rd Jun, 2010 Sprocket said:
DO NOT use the impact wrench to tighten the nut!!! Not quite the same, but I wish some of the tyre places would learn not to use air tools to do up the wheel nuts - when I first bought the mini, on giving it a good first service two of the wheel studs had fractures in them from these! I'll be attacking the hub nut tomorrow night - I'll let you know how I get on! Richard - have you got a scaffold bar I could borrow then??? 
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 549 Posts Member #: 5327 Post Whore Dudley, West mids |
7th Jun, 2010 at 08:50:38pm
Never tried this but........How about putting a breaker bar on the nut with a large tube on it and then reverse the car (Very slowly) the bar would push down on the ground. You'd need someone outside the car to make sure the bar doesn't come off. It would work in my head (I think). |
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 1451 Posts Member #: 328 Post Whore Seaford Rise, South Australia |
8th Jun, 2010 at 12:23:29pm
Trolley jack under breaker bar would be safer and just as effective! On 5th Sep, 2011 Vegard said:
I stand corrected. You should know  |
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 453 Posts Member #: 6449 Senior Member Brisbane, Australia |
8th Jun, 2010 at 01:45:44pm
Film it whatever you do. In boost we trust |
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2497 Posts Member #: 1954 Post Whore Luton Bedfordshire |
8th Jun, 2010 at 04:34:51pm
you need a blow torch, mix gas is hottest never fails
Own the day
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 8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
8th Jun, 2010 at 05:07:54pm
Drill the nut and split it. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel
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209 Posts Member #: 6451 Senior Member South East Northumberland |
8th Jun, 2010 at 08:47:00pm
On 8th Jun, 2010 matty said:
Drill the nut and split it. Matty, might come to that - the breaker bar with a 3' graunch bar resulted in........... a sheared 1/2" drive. So I'm now wondering if even heat will have the desired effect! Hmm...Plan B. |
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 11046 Posts Member #: 965 Post Whore Preston On The Brook |
8th Jun, 2010 at 10:04:42pm
^^ Which is why a breaker bar has a specific length and should never be extended with any sort of tube.
On 26th Oct, 2004 TurboDave16v said:
Is it A-Series only? I think it should be... So when some joey comes on here about how his 16v turbo vauxhall is great compared to ours, he can be given the 'bird'... On 26th Oct, 2004 Tom Fenton said:
Yep I agree with TD........ |
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Site Admin  15302 Posts Member #: 337 Fearless Tom Fenton, Avon Park 2007 & 2008 class D winner & TM legend. |
8th Jun, 2010 at 10:21:52pm
Go to local garage, get them to rattle nut off. Then tighten back by hand and drive home again.
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On 28th Nov, 2016 Rob Gavin said:
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 9502 Posts Member #: 1023 Post Whore Doncaster, South Yorkshire |
9th Jun, 2010 at 11:27:13am
On 8th Jun, 2010 Sprocket said:
Fair enough, I am lucky enough to have the 3/4 drive sockets and a 4ft 600lbft torque wrench due to my job, 
Yes i moved to the darkside |
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493 Posts Member #: 3894 Senior Member sallys gap. garden of Ireland |
9th Jun, 2010 at 12:09:53pm
On 8th Jun, 2010 best_stig said:
Film it whatever you do. 
Todays utube generation |
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209 Posts Member #: 6451 Senior Member South East Northumberland |
9th Jun, 2010 at 09:27:02pm
On 8th Jun, 2010 Sprocket said:
^^ I really cannot stand abuse of perfectly good tools, used in the wrong manor. Colin, got to agree! But.......... If I were in my natural environment (a workshop) I wouldn't even have asked the question! I'd have used the 3/4" kit (1 5/16" happens to be Bedford wheelnut size - yes we have wagons old enough to still need imperial sizes!) or borrowed the torque multiplyer - no problem! But seeing as they make me fly a desk these days I don't have easy access to the kit. Yes, I'd throw a wobbly at one of the young lads taking a cowboy attitude to using the tools, but by the same token I can be in a situation where I need ingenuity at the expense of the tool if it'll get the job done (it could be worth the risk). We even teach 'alternative' methods of fixing, just in case the situation should arrise. No excuse for not doing the job properly on a normal day-to-day situation though, I agree :) Anyway, the jobs done now. I ended up managing to borrow an old socket that had been welded onto a bar onto which a graunch bar can be used: 
Hopefully you can see the tool I have for locking the hub has been bent - it's approx 1 1/2" flat bar. On looking at the nut and threads with a monacle, both seem to be perfectly serviceable - no evidence of stretching/cracking in the root, and screwed back on smoothly. It torqued up at 270Nm just short of the split-pin hole, and easily tweeked up to line up the hole, as per the manual. A quick test drive shows the brakes to be much improved, locking up all too easily on the greasy roads after the sudden downpour we've just had. So, job done! Thanks for all the advice - at least anyone else having the same problem will have something to search for now
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549 Posts Member #: 5327 Post Whore Dudley, West mids |
9th Jun, 2010 at 09:36:00pm
Well done mate. |
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2497 Posts Member #: 1954 Post Whore Luton Bedfordshire |
10th Jun, 2010 at 01:59:49pm
I make a habbit of excersising items like this so as not to end up in this situation again. Well done for not resulting to destroying it Own the day
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 248 Posts Member #: 5007 Senior Member Crazyhill, Livi |
10th Jun, 2010 at 06:13:04pm
Ha - I'm having the same problem.... and it's the passenger side.
"se ne estas rompita, ne ripar ĝi - supercharge ĝi." |
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 1105 Posts Member #: 1504 Post Whore Westbury, Wiltshire |
10th Jun, 2010 at 08:41:05pm
Well done Gra.
Minivanless, but reluctantly happy living with the decision. There'll be another one day.
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