One Bolt...

[Nate Stuart]

> Well, I met one bolt's brother this weekend, he lived at the other end of
> the drive shaft at the diff end wearing the ever so stylish Loctite red.
> Did I mention the car is jacked up on one side so the one wheel is
spinning
> freely?  Had to put a 32mm socket on the rear axle bolt then push on the
> allen bit.  Like playing Twister with tools.  Got all his brothers removed
> except two, frustration sets in.

See, now this is the point where you went wrong. You get some sucker to hold
the allens wrench on the bugger bolt, then use the rear wheel itself as your
wrench to obtain a much greater amount of torque with much less effort
(except for the suc, uh, I mean fellow, holding the wrench/ratchet at the
bolt end). Once all the timing is right, and if a 6mm 3/8" ratchet bit is
used then it is really a beautiful, graceful, thing to watch.... or, at
least you can chalk it up to your 'now I've seen it all list'...

Oh yeah, if the wheel in the air is spinning freely just actuvate the rear
dif lock by hand, that'll secure the driveshaft, fer sure.


> Make a phone call to Bill Magliocco, he's here in 15 minutes and has the
> d*mned bolts out in another 20.  Driveshaft out with minimal
cussing/blood.

Or you call in the reinfocements... :-)

> I hereby nominate Bill for the "Huw Powell/Nate Stuart Lister To The
Rescue
> Award" for helping me out.  Thanks, Bill.

Cool

Take care,
-Nate
'89 90q (awaiting it's TB/WP, suspension, turbo,......)