Wendell,
I agree with Bill. After reading some suggestions you will save yourself
time, skin, patients, beer, etc. Go to Sears and look at the Craftsman Bolt
Remover/Bolt-Out Kits. They start at $19.99 and go up. They work. Sears
also has a Craftsman Nut Cracker for $14.00, built to take of lug nuts if
the nut is not recessed into a hub. I have no financial interest, I just do
not have time or patients. Good luck.
Gary Moomau, '67 BJ8
Yucaipa, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of insptwo@msn.com
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:05 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Re: rear hub nuts
Wendell:
Ran into that exact problem last year on my BJ7. Sears has a set of sockets
that will take them off. They are specificately made for rounded or broken
bolts.I tired every way under the son to remove the nuts. THEN I remembered
that my wife had bought the set for me. Two days trying to remove the nuts
with no luck. A total of 5 minutes with the socket set and ALL the nuts were
off. You just place the tightest socket over the nut, rap it on with a
hammer and remove it, easy a pie!
Bill
BJ7
>From: <pennell@cox.net>
>Reply-To: <pennell@cox.net>
>To: Dave Carpenter <d.carpenter7@verizon.net>, WHCross
><WHCross@alltel.net>
>CC: list <healeys@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Re: rear hub nuts
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:28:00 -0500
>
>Wendell,
>
>I kinda like Dave's idea. Never tried it before though.
>
>What I have done is use the
>hammer/heating/vicegrips/chisel/cursing/beer
>method. Seems to work albeit somewhat slowly! But by the time the nut
>comes off the beer has done its work! :)
>
>Keith Pennell
>
> >
> > Got a welder? I use a cheapo or junk 1/2 inch drive socket and weld
> > it right to the nut. The heat from the weld and the socket being
> > attached right to the nut usually do the trick. Cut the weld with a
> > disc cuter and move to the next nut.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > WHCross wrote:
> > > I have run into a problem in disassembling the BJ7 and need some
>advice from
> > > the list. Five of the ten rear hub nuts have been "rounded off" by
>previous
> > > workers. The correct size socket just slips when you try and turn
> > > it.
>Any
> > > suggestions on removing these nuts or am I going to have to drill
> > > out
>the
> > > studs? TIA. Wendall Cross BJ7
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