Lug Bolt Lube

[quk at isham-research.freeserve.co.uk]

All torque specifications are for dry bolts.  There is one case
on record of the manager of a bus garage being charged with
manslaughter after greased wheel bolts backed out on a bus
with fatal consequences, but the charge was eventually
dropped.  All lug bolts removed in my workshop go into the
degreaser.  How a bolt tightened to specification (110 NM -
80 lb ft) can present a removal problem is utterly beyond me.

My budgerigar could get a properly torqued lug bolt out using
a socket stuck to the end of a toothpick with bubble gum.

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 Phil Payne, Isham Research
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