Re: [MV] AAAAuuugh! Frozen lug nuts!!!!

Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 09:42:18 -0800 (PST)

--- Patricia Gibbons <wa6ube@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
> William R. Benson wrote:
> >
> > Hello all!
> >
> > This week end was the weekend that I was supposed
> to take off all of the
> > wheels of my M-37, remove the brake cylinders,
> clean up everything, and
> > take the truck on a little spin around the block.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I couldn't even budge one of the
> lug nuts...
> >
> > I used a four foot breaker bar - no dice...
> > I went to the hardware store and bought this stuff
> that the bearded old
> > feller said, "If this doesn't work, nothing
> will..." - Guess what?
> > I pounded on the thing, heated it with a torch,
> yelled at it, squirted it
> > with anything I could find to loosen it up, but no
> joy...
> >
> > Now, with bruised and aching hands, I lay the
> problem at the foot of the
> > alter of the almighty List, in the hopes that
> someone might have a solution
> > up their sleeve...
> >
> > Bill

> I hope you are aware that the right-hand wheels have
> right-hand thread
> and the left-hand wheels are left-hand thread ..
++++++++++++++++++++++
That's on a good day!! It sometimes happens that
someone put what ever they could find in when they
broke one. That means, on one hub, there may be lefts
and rights. Isn't that fun?

Joe F.

>
> perhaps you couldn't get them off cuz you were
> tightening them instead??
> stranger things have happened and it goes sort of
> like making sure
> your computer isn't working because it is not
> plugged in..
>
> Trish
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