[Healeys] Looking for ideas

Richard Ewald richard.ewald at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 11:26:29 MDT 2015


WD-40 is a really lousy penetrant.  There are several other products on
market that are worlds better.  Maltby or PB Blaster are both much better
products.
Read here
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-253390.html

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:29 PM, richard mayor <mayorrichard at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Heat, heat and more heat.  Each time spraying it with WD 40 ( I buy the
> stuff in gallon cans). When it's really hot the WD40 just instantly
> evaporates or boils off, but at some point, I believe it starts to wick
> in.  Sooner or later it will free up. In my experience, using a lot of
> force does a lot more damage than the heat.
> Good luck.
>
> ------------------------------
> To: Healeys at autox.team.net
> From: michael.salter at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:42:51 -0400
> Subject: [Healeys] Looking for ideas
>
> I left the seized shackle pins in both sides of this BN1 when it went off
> to TechnoStrip in the hope that they would come loose.
> They didn't so I've spent an inordinate amount of time trying to extract
> them without wreaking the mounts on the frame.
> Made a special puller, applied loss of heat, drilled right through each
> bush, grumbled a lot but they will not move despite being subjected to
> massive amount of force.
> Any ideas...damaging the mounts in the chassis makes for a very tedious
> repair.
> Michael S.
> BN1 #174
>
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