One Bolt...

[Marc Swanson]

> 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'...


sounds like you speak from personal experience?  Or are you just thinking of
a good one for "next time"?


> 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.


yep.  I acutally did that for a stubborn allen bolt on my driveshaft (before
it stripped anyway).  After it stripped I whiped out the handy dandy angle
grinder to level the head flush with the flange, then out came the sawzall
to cut the remaining stud by pulling gently on the shaft to create a gap
large enough to fit the blade in between the driveshaft cv and the mounting
point on the tranny.  In fact, the action of the sawzall was enough to
rotate the bolt without having to cut it all the way through!

> '89 90q (awaiting it's TB/WP, suspension, turbo,.....)

not necessarily in that order?


-Marc-


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