ditto. i have a modified sears socket as well a british tool wrench and both
work equally well.
jerry wall
ps. is there any possibility we could revive the heater blower motor thread
since i keep having the feeling i may have missed something pertinet.
BJ8Healeys wrote:
>
> 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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