On my VW Bug, I once had to do the same thing, except I ended up tying the
pipe onto the breaker bar, and rolling the car down a hill. End of the
pipe swings around until it hits the pavement WHAM!. The nut broke free on
the third try.
Chris Kotting
ckotting@iwaynet.net
On Sunday, February 08, 1998 10:34 PM, Ulix Goettsch
[SMTP:ulix@u.washington.edu] wrote:
> 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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