Re: Why Bolts

[Kneale Brownson <knotnook@traverse.com>]

That's one I'll remember, Bob, for when the wheels get too difficult for me
to lift.  Thanks!

Kneale Brownson


At 09:10 PM 10/2/99 -0400, -=Bob=- wrote:
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>Kneale Brownson wrote:
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>> I don't know what the "little black plastic thing" is (when you buy used
>> cars, you often don't get those kinds of bits in the tool kits--or even a
>> tool kit, for that matter), but I went to the hardware and bought a metric
>> bolt with the same thread as a wheel bolt and ground the head round to math
>> the shank of the bolt.
>
>I did something a little different (Im far lazier apparently) :)
>I tool some aluminum rod bent it into a large "U" so that the ends of the
U fit
>into the holes in the wheels and then into the rotors. Its long enough so 
>that I
>put it into the wheel, then the rotors and it lifts and aligns the wheels 
>with no
>effort at all. It also holds the wheel up so I can get a couple of lugs into 
>it,
>then I pull out the U.  Piece of cake and takes about a second to get the 
>wheel up
>there.
>
>Bob
>