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Subject:Re: Rear Axle Nut Socket Source?
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:27:11 -0500

Stan Wilder wrote:

If you just have to have the tool; try your local tool rental store.

About ten bucks for rental on a whole set.

Don't forget to rent the puller while you're there.

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:34:03 -0400 David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
writes:
> At 04:41 PM 4/17/2001, Rod Smith wrote:
> >  From what I understand this is a 46mm.
>
> I got one for close to $30 from a local FLAPS.  Bus Depot and no
> doubt
> others sell a stamped plate with a 46-mm hole in one end and a
> half-inch
> drive hole in the other, also suitable for hammering on.
>
> Are you sure you want to take this nut off?  Don't need to for brake
> work
> unless the backplate has to come off for some reason.
>
> david
>
>
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
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