Getting the nut off the hub

[scirocco_88_16v@hotmail.com (Brian Wagner)]

The Brian Wagner method works, just ask Patrick Bureau.

Take you 30mm 1/2" dirve breaker bar with a 3" 1/2 drive extension and the
toop half of a jack stand.

Put socket and breaker bar in place with the car on the ground, insert the
top half (saddle)under the 3" extension. now with the fulcrum point support
and someone in the car with their foot on the brakes. Stand on the breaker
bar (the bigger the person the better) they are torgued to 177 ftlbs. And
walla off it comes.

HTH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Alexander" <ralexander03@snet.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: Getting the nut off the hub


> Axle nut? You need a longer bar or a bigger kid on the end or both. Chock
> the wheel but also have someone inside with the foot brake on. A little
(as
> in small) bounce (forever warranted breaker bar) and it will come off. The
> little bounce is for shock value not to actually turn the thing.
>
> Rick Alexander
> http://www.brubakerbox.com
> http://clubs.hemmings.com/hams/
> http://clubs.hemmings.com/vwsrus/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cathy Boyko" <losinit@usa.net>
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 7:54 PM
> Subject: Getting the nut off the hub
>
>
> > This is the Jetta again, sorry, but it looks identical to the
Scirocco's,
> so
> > we can pretend, can't we?
> >
> > Anyway, my son soaked said nut with penetrating fluid, and used the big
> long
> > pipe for leverage, and still can't crack this nut to get the axle off,
it
> just
> > won't move. Lefty loosey, correct? He tried heat from one of those small
> > torches, but what other ideas do you folks have? (I think my brother's
> cutting
> > torch is next) We don't have air tools, and the car is pretty immobile
as
> it
> > stands. I guess he broke some bits trying to drill/grind it off, it must
> be
> > very hard. He had it off about a year ago, so it can't be totally rust
> welded?
> > Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > Cathy, for my son
> >
> >
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