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Originally Posted by JohnCT
Yep. My nephew brought his truck by last Sunday, and two lug nuts were over torqued. My impact couldn't touch them and my old standby of using my cross bar and four pound dead blow hammer couldn't crack them. I told him to bring it to the tire shop who put the tires on and have them crack them loose.
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My two dirty tricks for stuck nuts&bolts (not just lugs but anything somewhat beefy) are breaker bar with 6' extension pipe*, and if that fails I configure my breaker bar such that it has to move up to come loose then I stick a bottle jack under it and slowly jack up on the breaker bar...1/4 of the cars weight either breaks the bolt free or off (99% of the time it comes loose) or worse case scenario it starts to lift the car or the persuasion rig slips apart.
When I did my inner tierods I had to come up with something new....they have to come loose with an open ended wrench (the ends of my wrenches are not shaped right for the jack to grip at the angles available) my arms couldn't break the original 18 year old ones free...so laying on my back I managed to hold it on with my arm till I could get my foot on the wrench....then I used the greater muscle strength of my legs to get them loose.
*That pipe usually lives in my suburban due to its lugs seeming to tighten themselves if left alone a few months.
Torn muscles suck! Work smart not hard my friends.
02-26-2020, 03:34 PM
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