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Re: windshield wipers

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: windshield wipers
From: "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 1996 15:23:04 -0600
In <9611252024.AA03449@castles.com>, Larry Pitts wrote:
>        Help!!  
>I'm having trouble removing the nuts from the wheel box assemblies of the
>wind shield wipers. (ref moss cat. #'s 145-205 page 65 of catalog edition
>mgb-06, item #29). I've been applying WD-40 for several weeks and still
>unable to break these nuts free. I don't want to damage the wheel box or
>body sheet metal. To compound my problem they appear to be Whitworth. (btw
>SAE 11/32 and 3/4 ). I humbly bow to the wisdom of the list..... even David.  
>

Get a nut cracker.  Seriously, nut splitters are available from J. C.
Whitney or most auto tool outlets.  The nut is well and truly corroded
onto the wheelbox.  Split it off.
                        A. B. Bonds


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