Well, the Sears socket grabbed my nuts (so to speak) securely enough that it
held on through whacking with a hammer to loosen them and then tighten them
again. No damage at all to the nuts that I could see. Since I was working
by myself, it did require supporting the joint of the socket and ratchet
with a piece of two by four on a scissors jack (to get the socket/ratchet
into a horizontal plane and hold it there while pounding with the hammer).
The problem is the thinness of the nut and consequent lack of wrenching area
combined with the weight of the big socket. Yeah, you could use a tubular
breaker bar on the ratchet instead of hitting it with a hammer, but I didn't
have one handy at the time.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Mark and Kathy
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 8:46 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Socket for rear axle nut, was: RE: Rear Wheel Bearings
Sears was the first socket I checked out. I took the nut with me to size
it up. It appeared to me that it was just barely grabbing the the
corners of the nut. Hard to think that 50 ft lb of torque would
not round that nut off. I'll have to stop back and see if that was the
same part number that was listed here
Mark
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