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M1BYT > TECH 22.06.08 23:03l 67 Lines 3220 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Wheel Nuts
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From: M1BYT@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
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GM7HUD Opined with considerable skill:-
> Proper garages check with a torque wrench. The 1st time I saw this done at
> a garage was a branch of CostCo in 2001, the torque values were recorded on
> the bill. The last 3 times I have had tyres fitted the garage has checked
> with a torque wrench. That's at 3 different garages... I wonder if there's
> been some ruling from a court case where a garage was sued for doing a
> rubbish job such that the garages are now covering their backs legally
> rather than just doing a good job anyway?
Odd... I bought a caravan about 2 - 3 years ago and the made great play on
assuring me the wheel nuts had been correctly torqued up, quite embarassing
really.
>
>> I fit the spanner so its end is slightly above
>> horizontal and stand on the end. You cannot do this with a spider.
>
> Yes you can. You can hold the end furthest from the wheel to support the
> spider and apply force with your foot. It helps if you have sufficient mass
> too. I've big enough to have my on weather system! The supplied tyre
> spanner on my last two Hondas is a snug fit to the nuts and long enough
> that you can stand on that easily.
Bet you can bend down, grab both feet with your hands and lift yourself up :-)
You could do the stand on it trick with a spider, if you could find some means
to prop (spare jack) the opposite end to the one in use on the nut. When using
them I pull up on one arm, push down on the other and often as not bugger my
back up for the rest of the day.
> I like the way of removing locking nuts without the key. But that will only
> work if you have a nut that is solid. I had some nuts on my old Opel Manta
> GT/E that had an outer concentric shield that rotated freely to stop you
> doing that. You needed a "sort of" Allen key to undo them.
I hear those 'fit all' sockets are quite good for undoing those - Like socket,
but packed with sprung rods. You push the thing onto a nut and the rods push
out the way make a perfect fit for the nut, with the rods that don't push out
of the way.
Right....
Back to looking for that timer module I put aside somewhere intending to fit
it on the compressors circuit. I keep turning the compressor on to blow tyres
up etc. and forget to turn it back off again when it is finished with. It
usually fires back up at 3 in the morning, once it has leaked a little air. A
1 hour timer and a push button should put an end to it.
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