stuckup studs? -Reply

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <s32d3ab9.064@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil> Gross Scruggs writes:

> Dan, if you have any threads left, put two nuts on the stud and tighten them
> solidly and try to unscrew the inner one.

> Actually two pipe wrenches 180 deg from each other is less
> likely to bend said stud.  

I was about to post - then I saw this reply.

Years ago (1969?) I was a roustabout/factotum on an RAC rally team, working 
with a Janspeed 1275 Mini Cooper engine.
 
The standard stud removal technique was _exactly_ this - a combination of both 
techniques.  I learnt from a Janspeed engineer - he had two spanners (wrenches) 
of the same size (7/16ths AF, I seem to remember) and was lightening fast.  He 
would spin two nuts onto a stud as one handful, spin them together, and put a 
spanner on each such that the ends of the spanners weren't far apart.  Then he 
squeezed the spanners together.  Next, he would put _both_ spanners on the 
lower nut at 180 degrees and turn the whole like a tommy (breaker) bar.  SO 
fast and slick you would hardly believe it.  He maintained that unequally 
applied force was the major cause of stud breakage.

--
 Phil Payne
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 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club