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How NOT to remove a damaged wheel nut

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  • #2
    mullingar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,338 ✭✭✭mullingar


    frank gallagher wrote: »
    http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2684546



    what a plank


    Somebody should have hit him with a plank. FFS, cutting an alloy to remove a rung nut. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Why did fast-fit spring to mind?

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  • #3
    VinnyTGM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭VinnyTGM


    Yeh, but he gets the job done, dosen't he! :pac:


  • #4
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    what a nob...... pretty much the most awkward way of removing that bolt.

    Though there is that moment of sheer frustration when want to fling your spanner/socket into the next county when you sheer a bolt :pac:

    Moral of the story is - buy a torque wrench


  • #5
    mullingar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,338 ✭✭✭mullingar


    +1 on the torque wrench.

    It really pi$$es me off seeing tyre fitters use air guns set to 200-300 Nm's when 90% of cars only need 70-140Nm's (eg Lexus's are 76Nm, Fords are 130Nm).

    To give an idea to those uneducated:

    100Nm's is 100 Newtons applied at a lever length of 1 meter
    100 Newtons divided by 9.8 (gravity for Earth) is approx 10kgs levered at 1 meter
    Most tyre levers are around 25cms long, so 100/25 = 40kg = around 6 stone if you want to stand on the end of the tyre lever

    /rant over


  • #6
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Could have been worse, he could have cut some nice looking alloys :p


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  • #7
    2 stroke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Why on earth would you stand on the end of a tyre lever?


  • #8
    mullingar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,338 ✭✭✭mullingar


    2 stroke wrote: »
    Why on earth would you stand on the end of a tyre lever?

    Ive seen it done so many times where people jump on the lever as they dont know how tight it should be :rolleyes:


  • #9
    2 stroke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    A tyre lever is for removing the tyre from the rim, what you are referring to is a wheel brace.


  • #10
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    Idiot+Tools+a simple problem= disaster


  • #11
    mullingar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,338 ✭✭✭mullingar


    2 stroke wrote: »
    A tyre lever is for removing the tyre from the rim, what you are referring to is a wheel brace.

    Fair enough, its getting late, but im sure you knew what i meant


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  • #12
    CyberGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,581 ✭✭✭CyberGhost


    mullingar wrote: »
    +1 on the torque wrench.

    It really pi$$es me off seeing tyre fitters use air guns set to 200-300 Nm's when 90% of cars only need 70-140Nm's (eg Lexus's are 76Nm, Fords are 130Nm).

    To give an idea to those uneducated:

    100Nm's is 100 Newtons applied at a lever length of 1 meter
    100 Newtons divided by 9.8 (gravity for Earth) is approx 10kgs levered at 1 meter
    Most tyre levers are around 25cms long, so 100/25 = 40kg = around 6 stone if you want to stand on the end of the tyre lever

    /rant over

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  • #13
    robtri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,425 ✭✭✭robtri


    ohhh man what a complete plank....


  • #14
    hobochris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭hobochris


    When I had a Kia rio(mk1),if a wheel nut went, you used to have to snap the nut/bolt off, metal was to crap for heat or anything else. I ended up having to keep wheel nuts and bolts in the car.

    Had to do it twice at the side of the road with a flat tire, that car nearly made a mechanic of me.


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