So both axle nuts are stuck on this Infiniti G20 I am working on. They are 36MM. I have a 36mm deep socket, but its ½” drive. I snapped my cheap breaker bar, and bent a MAC breaker bar.

Next I tried my socket, ½ to ¾ MAC adapter and a huge ¾ MAC rachet with a long steel pipe. I snapped the adapter. Next I tried a ½” impact gun, still didn’t get it. These damn nuts are stuck, they have been soaking in liquid wrench for three days.

Any suggestions??

Next I plan on trying a 1” 36mm socket, and 1” drive breaker bar.

The transmission is good, but the motor has a spun bearing. I have a replacement motor waiting to go in, but the damn axle nuts are slowing me down.

11/13/2007 9:24:53 AM

torch it

11/13/2007 9:34:11 AM

ive had my share.

get a lifetime warrantee breaker bar.

like crafts man because its close by.

goto town. put another lifetime warrantee screw driver through the caliper into the rotor slots to stop the turning.

and then break it loose.

thats one of the few easy ways you can do it by yourself.

ive never had to torch or mess with liquid wrench.

11/13/2007 9:47:28 AM

Heat

11/13/2007 9:49:58 AM

Shoot it.

11/13/2007 10:05:52 AM

not sure I can get my hands on a torch.

11/13/2007 10:08:18 AM

http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200305441_200305441 on that bitch

11/13/2007 10:09:58 AM

^hahahaha

11/13/2007 10:17:03 AM

That, by the way, is an incredibly cheap price for a 1" extended anvil rat-a-tat gun.

11/13/2007 10:21:03 AM

Or you could go down Method Rd and use Eds ideal.......

11/13/2007 10:25:24 AM

are you sure that you are turning them in the right direction?

11/13/2007 10:29:00 AM

a real 1/2" impact gun should take it right off, you need at least a 850 ft/lb gun and 120-150 psi, a harbor freight pos aint gonna cut it

11/13/2007 10:44:40 AM

I dunno man. We had a 3' cheater pipe on the biggest adjustable wrench we could find (like 20" or something stupid) trying to break the axle nut loose on a '74 Karmann Ghia. Shit just didn't work. We bent the fucking pipe.

11/13/2007 10:49:20 AM

It was a dewalt cordless impact gun. not sure of the model number.

11/13/2007 10:57:31 AM

using the mac tools, the car actually started to move forward a lil bit. rear brake was up, car was in gear, all 4 wheels on ground. i am turning counter clockwise like the FSM says to do. I just did a sentra (32mm bolt) with that impact gun, took 10 secs.

11/13/2007 11:03:47 AM

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"It was a dewalt cordless impact gun. not sure of the model number."

there's your problem, get a real, air, impact gun like an IR titanium and it will come right off

11/13/2007 11:21:59 AM

chock the wheel and try again.

or buy an air gun

11/13/2007 11:22:39 AM

Quite a bit more thread surface area on the 36mm ones.

For that kind of thing, a DeWalt cordless impact is a JOKE. It might have gotten the other ones, but I find that pretty amazing. My old DeWalt 120V corded one was a hit-or-miss proposition for a lot of axle shaft nuts...and most were the 32mm variety like on a Sentra. It didn't even begin to touch the stub shaft nuts on my 280ZX.

You need to have somebody in the car with the brake pedal down HARD. just having it in gear and the parking brake on isn't good enough.

11/13/2007 11:23:58 AM

only way i know of to do it by hand is to take the wheel off, wedge a bar between two studs and the ground, then use a breaker bar and long ass pipe on the nut pushing down in the same direction as the bar is wedged, otherwise you will pick the car up off the ground


if the wheel has a center cap the allows access to the nut with the wheel on, wedge a breaker bar against the ground facing the rear, and drive backwards

11/13/2007 11:26:04 AM

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"wedge a bar between two studs and the ground"

if you do that, put the lug nuts on, you are gonna screw up the threads on the studs.

or stuck something in the back of the caliper into the rotor slots. if there are any.

11/13/2007 12:27:24 PM

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"Mon Nov 12, 6:12 PM ET SOUTHWORTH, Wash. - A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said. The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said. "He's bound and determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said. From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with buckshot and debris, with some injuries as high as his chin, according to a sheriff's office report. "Nobody else was there and he wasn't intoxicated," Wilson said. The man was taken to Tacoma General Hospital with injuries Wilson described as severe but not life-threatening."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_fe_st/odd_shotgun_lug_nut;_ylt=AqsIwkb34sZYnrw0VPdXLhvtiBIF

11/13/2007 12:51:51 PM

darwin

11/13/2007 1:07:36 PM

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"he wasn't intoxicated"

just stupid, you use slugs for that, not buckshot, durrrrrrrr

11/13/2007 1:37:35 PM

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=95221-717-PK1001&lpage=none

11/13/2007 1:40:08 PM

11/13/2007 1:58:24 PM

^BLUE WRENCH FTMFW

11/13/2007 2:13:47 PM

real impact gun will do it.

and did anyone else notice that that 1" impact gun from harbor freight uses 12 CFM of air????? isn't that a shitload at least at 90+ psi? not something a home compressor could ever put out at least

11/13/2007 9:14:34 PM

if you have the need for a 1" impact gun, you more than likely have more than your average home compressor.

11/13/2007 9:18:03 PM

11/13/2007 9:18:55 PM

Lots of PB Blaster and a real air gun....

11/13/2007 9:24:36 PM

I got it off. 3/4" tbar and a 1-7/16 socket, and a long ass steel pipe. When the bolts broke loose, sounded like a gun shot.

Now I am dealing with a stuck motor mount.

11/14/2007 7:43:53 AM

Was this car parked at the bottom of the Pamlico Sound?

11/14/2007 7:56:41 AM

better than the 'deeper' well sockets we have at work in 3/4 drive. all you need is an impact socket, a band saw, and some 1 1/2 inch sched 80 pipe. Cut socket, insert 19 inches of pipe, weld. Beats an extensional all to hell, and for some applications( cable tensioning) nothing else gets the job done. of course, our current 3/4 drive cheater is a 6 foot tanker bar that has a 3/4 drive drive bar welded to the top end.

11/15/2007 12:25:06 AM