Uhm...I forgot, you have to chock the tires too.

Greg
86 Westy
73 Thing
99 Subaru Forester

Stan Wilder wrote:

> When I had my new axle nuts installed the mechanic used a big Snap On
> torque wrench and when he applied his full force to reach the 250+ torque
> it rolled the van forward with it in gear and the emergency brakes on. I
> had to hold my foot on the brake so he could bring the nuts to full
> torque.
> There aren't any shortcuts unless you just grind the nuts off and then
> install new nuts (both I did).
> You can probably rent the torque wrench and socket but the mechanic that
> did mine charged me $10.00 for the torquing process, I felt that was fare
> considering he used $400.00 worth of tools to do in ten minutes.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 20:36:56 -0500 Greg <kessler@OHIO.EDU> writes:
> > The John Muir book has a good suggestion for this, but basically you
> > have to get the socket (36mm I think), a prybar and a long
> > pipe that you can extend the prybar with ( I use one that is about
> > 3-4 feet long). Then you jump on it, shove it, whatever you
> > can do to get it loose.
> >
> > Greg
> > 86 Westy
> > 73 Thing
> > 99 Subaru Forester
> >
> >
> > I'm having a problem removing the nut on the rear axle of my
> > Vanagon. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> > Gary McEachern, Reading Ma.
> > '90 Westy
> > '87GL Wolfy Weekender SubaVanagon
> > '87 Syncro
> > '91 Subaru Legacy Sedan
> > '93 Subaru Legacy Wagon
> > '76 Camper
> > '75 Spitfire
> >
>
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