2007 at the Hammond Barn

[Phil Waterman]

Originally posted by Bob Carriere
Take whole different meaning when heating up the lug nuts off a CMP.......

There was not one nut that came off with out being glowed cherry red..... .......

Taking the rims apart will require more heat but this time will be using the 3/4 drive. Threads will be cleaned/chased and greased before reassembly......



BooB

Bob

Canadian Rust must be of better grade than what we see below the boarder. I've never had that much problem loosening the rim nuts. Wonder what is different, here is what I’m doing in the general order:
1. Soak the nuts with penetrating oil overnight or over several weeks
2. Try them with ½ drive impact wrench rated at 300 ftlbs luck for me this has generally removed most of the nuts.
3. Reapply the penetrating oil or liquid wrench
4. Vibrate any remaining nuts with flat punch in air-powered chisel trying to hit all the sides of the nuts that can be reached also vibrate around nuts on the rim
5. Try the ½ impact again this time changing the direction every few seconds
6. Give up and call it a day
7. Having recovered a day or two start all over again
8. Add heating the nuts with propane torch (I don’t have oxy/acetylene)

I keep repeating this over a couple of days and so far every nut has eventually yielded. Maybe the difference is just the heating and cooling cycle over a number days. Using this process I’ve been lucky in that none of the nuts or studs have broken off.