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Re: Crank bolt

To: Bkitterer@aol.com
Subject: Re: Crank bolt
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 19:34:25 -0800 (PST)
Cc: b-evans@ix.netcom.com, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
In-reply-to: <769804b9.34de73e0@aol.com>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 Bkitterer@aol.com wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> Here is a bit of a fright.  Get a 3-4 foot piece of steel pipe with a ID just
> larger than the handle of the braker arm.  Slip it on an the breaker arm and
> see if you split wood (blocking the crank), break sockets, bend pipe or the
> sucker comes loose.  (This special tool #113)

Bob,
I have used special tool #113HD, a 3/4" drive (!) socket, and breaker bar
with an 8-foot pipe to get an axle nuts loose on a VW bus.  Engine in
gear, handbrake on, it still turned the tire on the asphalt when I jumped
on the pipe.  It took someone standing on the brake pedal and me jumping
on the pipe, which deflected ~1.5 feet and then BANG! it came loose.
Luckily I was hanging on to the rain gutter...

    Ulix                                                    __/__,__        
.......................................................... (_o____o_)....
                                                           '67 Sprite


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