axle nut threading direction?

Szalkerous · #1 11-23-2008, 02:45 PM

Title says it all... before I go and really try to break this little bastard loose, are the axle nuts on the SVX threaded clockwise-tighten or clockwise-loosen?

What a project.

-sz

odepaj · #2 11-23-2008, 03:17 PM

Clock-wise tighten, just like everything else on the car.

They can be a b**** though!

I snapped a breaker bar in half while trying to remove one once!

Dustin

Wikedjuggalo · #3 11-23-2008, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by odepaj

Clock-wise tighten, just like everything else on the car.

They can be a b**** though!

I snapped a breaker bar in half while trying to remove one once!

At least you know it wasnt a chance of anything happening with it

odepaj · #4 11-23-2008, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Wikedjuggalo

At least you know it wasnt a chance of anything happening with it

This is very true!

I had a near 300lb guy jumping up and down on the breaker bar while it was on that nut!

Luckily the bar had a lifetime warranty! So I just drove to the store and swapped it out with a brand new one!

Dustin

Szalkerous · #5 11-24-2008, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by odepaj

I had a near 300lb guy jumping up and down on the breaker bar while it was on that nut!

I'm only 165 lbs.

I need heavier friends.

kwren · #6 11-25-2008, 12:59 AM

get a good big breaker bar and a 12 ft 3/4 galvanized pipe to use as a cheater and it will slip right off!

Keith

Push down of course.

Hondasucks · #7 11-25-2008, 01:24 PM

An impact gun is your friend. If you don't have a compressor, search ebay for a 19.2V cordless 1/2" drive one, I have a Mac Tools one (sells for about $400 new, I got it used off the tool truck for $125. You could also chase a snap-on truck down and see if they have a used one.) Sure is easier than trying to get stuff like this off by hand!

kwren · #8 11-26-2008, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Hondasucks

An impact gun is your friend. If you don't have a compressor, search ebay for a 19.2V cordless 1/2" drive one, I have a Mac Tools one (sells for about $400 new, I got it used off the tool truck for $125. You could also chase a snap-on truck down and see if they have a used one.) Sure is easier than trying to get stuff like this off by hand!

The pipe costs $8. the breaker bar lifted up the car and standing on it it didn't budge. Bought an impact wrench and the impact wrench didn't get mine off at all.

There are none that won't come off with a little push down on a 12 ft long 3/4 inch pipe!

kwren · #9 11-26-2008, 12:33 AM

Is true what Mr Hondasucks said about the impact wrench being a friend! My new one sure is!!!

Keith

odepaj · #10 11-26-2008, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by kwren

The pipe costs $8. the breaker bar lifted up the car and standing on it it didn't budge. Bought an impact wrench and the impact wrench didn't get mine off at all.

There are none that won't come off with a little push down on a 12 ft long 3/4 inch pipe!

Yeah, took me 2 hours with the breaker bar and then another 30-40 mins with the impact wrench......

That nut was on there good

Dustin

Hondasucks · #11 11-26-2008, 09:34 PM

I've discovered my cheap Harbor Freight impact gun won't budge an axle socket, but the one I have at work, which is a Stanley branded Ingersoll-Rand IR231 (One of the most widely produced impact guns) that sells for ~$80 at Wal Mart, I got mine for $20 at an auction, will buzz pretty anything off, with shop air, it doesn't have as much oomph at my house with my little dinky compressor.

I use my cordless one for buzzing stuff off at the junkyard mostly, or if I'm at work and I don't feel like dragging an air hose around to do a tire rotation.