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KURO KURO is offline
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Plymouth, MI
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Unhappy Help!!! Frozen rear hub nut....

Put 6+ hours on Sunday trying to turn the rear hub nuts. After 2 o2 cans for the portable torch, one broken 1/2" drive ratchet, one broken impact wrentch (those you beat up with hammer), several bent gas pipes and bars, and 3 sweat soaked T-shirts, my driver-side rear hub nut is still frozen.

I assume you turn the dr-side rear hub nut counterclock wise to loosen just like everything else except the dr-side front hub locking nut, correct?

Any tricks that I could try before taking my dremel and split the nut and risk damaging the stub axle thread? I weigh only 130lb so I guess the torque I applied would be about 260lb-ft so far (does jumping on the bar count extra?) I'm gonna see if Home Depot has some stonger bar that I could use (and hope that I do not break any more tools.)

Thanks.
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Old 07-14-2003, 04:06 PM
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