PhoenixCapri
West Midlands
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Aug 31, 2008 20:35:06 GMT
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 But the 6th one got the hub nut off! Yay  This is way you shouldn't buy cheap stuff, or at least make sure the stuff has a life times warrenty  It took a 6ft steel bar and full body weight on the end of a braker bar to get the thing loose! Unfortunatly after all that the new driveshaft was too short! So now the CRX is off the road while I get the old one rebuild. Yet another job that hasn't gone as planned!   |
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Aug 31, 2008 20:53:27 GMT
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I have a special breaker bar for hub nuts that is the bar from a set of dumbells (rated to over 200kg). I got an old 12" breaker bar and welded up the joint at a slight angle to give clearance. I built up the handle with weld and hammered it into the hollow bar.
Works a treat on Mini hub nuts (tight as you can plus 1 full turn).
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Aug 31, 2008 21:18:41 GMT
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Thats when it comes in handy to have 3/4" gear Landrover discovery 200TDi crankshaft damper bolts, to remove, damper locked against chassis, 3/4" power bar, 6ft scaffold tube and my 140kg svelte frame hanging off it to slacken it. |
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Aug 31, 2008 21:53:23 GMT
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next time apply blowtorch ;D
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 once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears! |
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Aug 31, 2008 22:04:20 GMT
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I had a pair of subframe bolts on a new shape transit the other week, broke 2 half inch snap on bars and a 3/4 reducer on an inch gun.
In the end i cut the wishbones off.
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Darrel
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Aug 31, 2008 22:08:17 GMT
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Hang on, arent a couple of those bits Halfords Proffesional range? If so they have a lifetime warranty. Just take them back. It must of been damn tight to break them though.
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Mr K
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Aug 31, 2008 22:37:48 GMT
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Hang on, arent a couple of those bits Halfords Proffesional range? If so they have a lifetime warranty. Just take them back. It must of been damn tight to break them though. i was gonna say that! halfords proffessional are in my opinion, the dogs danglies. |
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glad its not just me been breaking tools this week LOL.
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Tim
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glad its not just me been breaking tools this week LOL. Snapped two extended sockets trying to get the alternator off of the 106 t'other week weren't mine either ;-) |
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Thats when it comes in handy to have 3/4" gear Landrover discovery 200TDi crankshaft damper bolts, to remove, damper locked against chassis, 3/4" power bar, 6ft scaffold tube and my 140kg svelte frame hanging off it to slacken it. So what we're saying here is because I'm a skinny lad I'd need a 12ft scaff tube on the end and there's still no guarantee I'd get it to budge  |
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Sept 1, 2008 10:03:07 GMT
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I know that feeling. gone through a few cheap wrenches, now have a 3/4" breaker bar for backup.
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Remade In Australia
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PhoenixCapri
West Midlands
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Sept 1, 2008 10:30:29 GMT
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Yes they are Halfords parts, and yes they have been replaced ;D After that job I might be investing in some 3/4 kit very soon!
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Sept 1, 2008 10:38:10 GMT
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I have a 39inch long 3/4 breaker bar, and I also have a 4 foot long metal pole from the top of a clothes rail (shop/industrial quality) to put on the breaker bar, just in case its stubborn |
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta
2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van
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"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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berendd
Europe
why do I need 3 keys for one car?
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Sept 1, 2008 11:25:35 GMT
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I've got a large 3/4 King Tony Breaker bar and a piece of scaffolding pipe to get them hub nuts loose.
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bortaf
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Sept 1, 2008 12:50:17 GMT
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Done the same trying to take off transit and LDV twin wheel wheel nuts, ended up with a 3/4" breaker bar and a 4 Ft scaff tube, i go 19 stone and i aint broke that,,,,yet!  |
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R.I.P photobucket
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Sept 1, 2008 13:02:39 GMT
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I'm sure some classic/historical/diVinchi type said...
"Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the earth..."
Anybody got his mobile number? Pics, thread etc?
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skinnylew
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Sept 1, 2008 18:15:37 GMT
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Ive broken some Halfords pro stuff before but i used to work for them so it got replaced the next day lol. I seem to remember the lifetime warranty didn't cover moving parts (i.e. ratchet mech's) but i don't know whether we just used to use that to stop people bringing back their 'left out in the rain/found in the scrappy' ratchets lol
List of Halfords pro casualties
Snapped a breaker bar head (the pivot section on the bar)
13mm short socket (split the side)
10mm socket (chunk snapped off)
any screwdriver in the range lol
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This is way you shouldn't buy cheap stuff, or at least make sure the stuff has a life times warrenty 
It took a 6ft steel bar and full body weight on the end of a braker bar to get the thing loose!
Ax GTi Turbo