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- From: rodb@cs.ubc.ca (Rod Barman)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: 46mm nut---How to remove?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:33:13 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <1992Nov17.102016.1160@yvax.byu.edu> colemant@yvax.byu.edu writes:
- >Please help me find the tool/ wrench to remove the rear axle nut from
- >my 71 bus. The size is 46mm and the only offers I have are for:
- >
- >$107 crescent wrence with 2.5" max
- >$30 socket and adaptor from sears
- >
- >I have visions of making a tool to fit stuggly with some arm sticking out
- >to hit with a hammer. Custom making it may cost more than buying it.
-
- A company called "Schey Tools" makes exactly this along with a 1/2" hole
- for a breaker bar. You apply hand pressure with the breaker bar and then hit
- the tool with hammer. They claim that this is more effective than an impact
- wrench. Locally these tools are carried by Bow-Wow, my favourite VW parts place.
-
- --rod.
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- Rod Barman, IRIS NCE @ Laboratory for Computational Intelligence,
- University of British Columbia
- rodb@cs.ubc.ca
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