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Re: [oletrucks] stupid questions - running boards

To: bob_keeland@usgs.gov
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] stupid questions - running boards
From: john j tonyes <flfox1@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:14:05 -0400
If you have an Air Chisel, that is an easy  way.  It would be a great
investment, if you don't have one.  They don't cost that much.  

John T
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:59:18 -0500 "Bobby D Keeland"
<bob_keeland@usgs.gov> writes:
> Rock,
> 
>      I've stripped my frame down to nothing except for the running 
> boards
> for exactly the same reason.  Don't really know how to get them off 
> and am
> waiting to hear the answer to your not-so-stupid question.
> 
> BobK
> 51 3600 5-window (project)
> Arnaudville, LA
> 
> I added running boards to the subject line so that this will come up 
> in a
> search of the archieves.
> 
> 
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> 
> Ok folks time for my annual stupid question from a non-mechanic.  I 
> was
> just
> trying to get my running boards off and, of course, the nuts are 
> really
> rusted.  Now the ruts are square and are in a deep channel...how do 
> you get
> them off?  I tried a socket, but none seem to fit well enough to 
> turn them
> without stripping the corners off.  I can't fit an open end box 
> wrench on
> them, the channel is to narrow and deep.  And the old standby, Vice 
> Grips,
> is
> to big to get in the channel.  There has to be some secret for 
> getting
> running
> boards off, but I haven't found it.  Help!!!!!
> 
> Second question isn't so stupid.  I'm thinking of changing my rear 
> gearing.
> Has anyone ever changed out the gears?  I read in a suppliers 
> catalog that
> you
> can buy a kit to upgrade the gear ratio, but being mechanicly 
> challanged
> I'm a
> little leary of doing this by my self.  Second option is to change 
> out the
> rear clip with another, but I'd rather leave my transmission in 
> place and
> just
> be able to pull the old and drop in the new.  Is this doable?  And 
> if so
> what
> type of rear clip works?
> 
> John "Rock" the mechanically challenged Rockefeller
> 1949 3100 "Eeyore"
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