the car is on jacks.

we tried one guy push on the brake and i used a breaker bar,but the brakes couldnt hold.

any tips or tricks on this job? other than going out and buying the proper air tools

 

I put a screw driver in between the rotor vent and the caliper and caliper bracket.

 

k i'll check that out

 

You unstaked the nut right? It can be a bugger with hand tools, but use the longest breaker bar you can find or slide a pipe over the end. I never had any luck with an impact driver on axle nuts, so dont waste your time. Hold the brakes tight and jump on the breaker bar handle. You can also try soaking it with some PB Blaster. Or lastly, you can also try bleeding your brakes

If you've got wheels without centercaps. You can also set the car down, put the car in gear, and have someone step on the brakes while you jump on the bar. Just be sure it's got a warranty, because you may break the breaker bar.

 

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that's the way i did it when i did my clutch, it's not that hard to get them off with an 8 foot tube on a 3 foot breaker. but the air tools didn't help me much when i tried those, even at 135psi, the gun just wouldn't break em, and it's a snap on composite..

 

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that's the way i did it when i did my clutch, it's not that hard to get them off with an 8 foot tube on a 3 foot breaker. but the air tools didn't help me much when i tried those, even at 135psi, the gun just wouldn't break em, and it's a snap on composite..</TD></TR></TABLE>

However air tools are very good for helping the pb blast to penetrate. Put some pb blast all over it and rap on it with a hammer, or use an impact and keep on it for a while. The vibrations help the pb penetrate deeper in the threads.

 

I've never used PB Blaster on an axle nut with impact. Only used it on tough exhaust bolts and then I use hand tools to break it loose. I think the impact action of the impact gun is doing more than the PB Blaster getting deeper into the threads.

 

i went to meijer and bought a kawasaki electric corded impact gun and it work wonders. took two seconds to get the nut off and easy as hell to put it back on. just buy it and then return it after your all done. its $60 and there was a sale on it. good luck

 

EDIT: if you feel unsafe about the studs being stripped the put your lugnuts on its not brain surgery


Modified by 91ed9 at 7:43 PM 5/3/2007

 

we got it..just had to use a jack to support the lower arm and a screwdriver wedged in the rotor

thanks

 

Easiest way is to leave it on the ground and take the center cap off. Leave the wheel on and it can't move.

 

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Last week on my gf's CRX I was spinning the wheel with the car on the ground doing that. I felt like ******* Hercules LoL.

 

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Last week on my gf's CRX I was spinning the wheel with the car on the ground doing that. I felt like ******* Hercules LoL. </TD></TR></TABLE>Lol, burnout by hand.

 

I had this exact problem a week ago or so when parting my crx out. Use an air gun, takes 10m. I used a steel bar and bent it and it didn't budge. Air gun pulled em right off.

 

when i didnt have air tools, i just left it on the ground. Got a breaker bar with a metal pipe probably over 8 feet long, got on very end and pulled up as hard as i could till you hear a pop.

its a 32mm nut, with that much torque, its going to give eventually

 

Tippyman

do what he said

 

put the car on the ground with the wheels on.


breaker bar on the nut, long breaker bar + maybe a friend on the brakes.


done.


i said friend too, because i had no engine in my car when i was taking out the axles, and even with the car on the ground, i was spinning the tire with a breaker bar. hahaha


EDIT: i wrote that before i read all the other posts. SAME ****! LOL


burnout by hand....... BAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAQAAAAA!

 

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i said friend too, because i had no engine in my car when i was taking out the axles, and even with the car on the ground, i was spinning the tire with a breaker bar. hahaha


EDIT: i wrote that before i read all the other posts. SAME ****! LOL


burnout by hand....... BAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAQAAAAA!
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The engine was in the the car with mine!

 

"Hercules Hercules!"

 

dang this z10 crossmember only lined up on one side and we stripped the bolt holes trying to force it ftl.(either my frame is tweaked a bit or the design is off a little,probably both imo)

i'm gonna have to find someone to weld it in or something...that would work right?

 

the absolute easiest way (if you can drive the car) is to drive to a place where they fix transport trucks (where they will either do it for free or tell you to expletive off) get them to take it off with their 3/4" air guns, slap on some anti-seize and torque the nut back on to spec. It will always come off pretty easy the 2nd time.

 

When people say their air tools dont work, and that they were using 130psi... what is the CFM on the compressor.