I was just looking around the other day and saw alot of threads about stuck axle nuts when i searched to double-check that the size was 32mm (A guy at a house of tools store made me second guess myself when he told me that the biggest metric socket they stocked was 24mm)

well, I ran down to a different place and got me a nice fresh and new 32mm socket. I tried to get the axle nuts off as soon as i got home, stuck the spiffy new socket on my trusty breaker bar (stumpy) and went outside.


well, after trying in vain with that tool, and laughing a myself for thinkng i had a hope in hell, i asked one of the techs at work for his "convincing" bar.

I couldnt have asked for a better helper.

A hollow steel pipe that looked a good 5' long. and already had a nice curve to it from previous "convincing" of stuck parts.


So let it be known that if you have a stuck axle nut, get a breaker bar with a lifetime waranty, a HUGE pipe and break that sucker loose. I thought I broke the breaker bar on he passenger side, but it was the nut. I had my wife sit in the car with the brakes on.




Modified by 89s1 at 8:58 PM 9/6/2007

 

that doesnt really look like a breaker bar...looks like a big ratchet. picked up a 2 foot breaker bar at the store for like 10 bucks and got it off like that. but whatever works for you

 

the difference between a breaker bar and a ratchet isn't it's size, but that solid pivot point at the neck as opposed to a ratcheting... ratchet head.

 

yeah your right. i just meant to say that looks about the size of my ratchet. my bad. but seriously that thing is pretty small

 

yeah, that's a breaker bar.... a small one though.

 

next time try applying some heat to the nut. Comes right off every time! No big breaker bar or pipe needed.

 

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That's what she said!

 

Hey man you must like black shoes. Thats alot of black shoes laying around

 

yikes, major TQ yo