[Bob Carriere]

Being chilly here in Ottawa I decided to try my hand at dis-assembling 16" wheel. Had to remove the bolted spare tyre ( for our UK friends)from the cargo box...... bolted rusted but gave way under the impact wrench.

First lesson learned ... I now know why they had a rubber shortage in 1946..... that has to be the heaviest 16 wheel I have handled..... lobed it off the truck... fell like a lead ballon with no bounce.

Now for the warming up trick.... pulled out the torches... impact..... **&^%%&* do you know which size socket has been lost from my socket wrench.... Yep .. exactly the 1 1/8 I needed...
So Sunday morning drove to Princess Auto got a new set of deep 3/4 drive sockets.. (in case I by a 3/4 impact at a later date.

Back home... lugging the wheel... all nuts had been soaking in Release All all night.... Release All my a..... didn't release nuthin'

Hot wrench to the rescue...... cranked up the air pressure to 125 and added a few drops of oil directly in the air line...... Cherry red it became and bang bang to nuthin' extimate the impact rated at 380 pounds at 90 pressure is probably pushing 450 at 125 pounds and extra oil.

Did all the 8 nuts alternating between forward and reverse..... took lunch break and poured some airtool oil on each of the nuts which partly cooled off.....

After lunch reheated each nut and with some persistence got them ALL off... no damage....but I really had to get the nuts a nice cherry red.

Wondering if the airline oil is some secret oil or whether the pause between trying mattered... but they came off.

Rims came apart in the centre reasonably easy....
BUT... the tires (for our CDN friends) seem to be rusted tight on the rims.

Pryied the rims apart 1 1/4 in apart.. inserted pieces of square tubing in the sapce between the two halves of the rim..... and while flat on the ground lowered the front edge of the tractor on the tyre (well you know for who) to try to break the bead.... went around the tire (yeah) on both sides..... gave up put the tractor away and went for supper and Beer...haaa beer.

Now I soaked both sides of the t... rim near the bead with W 40... ran out of the other good stuff hoping that it will soak and release. What else can I use?? the tractor weights 7500 ounds and had the front hweels off the ground and the ti-yre... got it... never even moved... in fact the casing is so hard it barely went down a few inches.......

Now my questions.....

1.... what else can I do???? to remove the darn &**&%* thing off the rim..... any suggestions to make life easier since I have another 4 hweels to go????

2. who has spare rim nuts....some are missing on the other wheels.... I need five and how much......

Finished my weekend by fabricating a lifting device to move the truck around to near the front of the barn for hot wrench and impact toll access.

Using a very thick wall piece of square 1 1/2 tubing, about 36 inches long.... fits nicely in both D rings.... weld a 5/8 U shaped ring in the middle of the bar.

Now I back up the tractor's 3 point hitch with a pintle hook attached hook up to the front of the C15a.. lift the front end off the ground and can move it along like a trailer.....

Your comments on my tyre/tire dilemma will be appreciated!!!!

Next week end ... weather and in laws permitting..
while start some cleaning up with photo coverage.