Now, the nut is very weirdly shaped I'll try to draw it in ascii.....
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Was this predictable or what? :-)
However the nut is not a perfect octagon but instead looks like a nut
would look had it been rounded off by using an incorrect socket size.
But it was made this way....
The nut I got off is marked with MOWOG on it's face (morris - wollesly
garage?)
Morris-Wolseley Group, to be exact, the subsidiary within BMC that was
responsible for MG and other cars.
Any help as to what the heck this thing is would be appreciated...
There's a trick to these nuts. The easiest way to get them off at home is
to use a hammer and a soft drift. Place the point of the drift at the
edge of one of the points of the octagon and pound on it with a big
hammer. Note that the right-hand nut is reverse threaded so that it
doesn't come off under driving torque (same as wire wheel nuts). That
drove me and Andy crazy when he was trying to rebuild the axle in his
race car last year.
--Scott "And for some of us, that's a pretty short commute" Fisher
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