Be real nice and somebody will send you a couple of studs or you can get
them for about $4.00 each from VW.

Stan

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:45:21 -0800 Tom Young <tomyoung1@ATTBI.COM> writes:
> Hi all:
>
> Wilson's book on rebuilding the air-cooled VW engine states that the
> torque
> for the nut that holds the rocker arms to the stud is 18 ft.-lbs.
> which sure
> *seemed* like a lot given the small size of the nut, but I didn't
> question
> it until.....  the second of the nuts I snugged down began to "stop
> tightening" even though I continued to crank on it.  (Looking at the
> Bentley
> manual - too late! - revealed that it's really supposed to be
> tightened to
> 11 ft.-lbs.)  When I reversed the nuts holding this particular
> rocker down
> the nuts didn't come out - the studs did!
>
> So, I went down and got the M10 nuts I needed, double-nutted the
> stud, and
> succeeded in getting one of rocker arm nuts off.  But the other nut
> is
> stripped and just spins.  I know there's "nut-cracker" tools you can
> use in
> this case, but I'd rather not go buy this for a one-time deal.  I've
> got
> cold chisels and hack saws and all kind of implements of
> destruction; how do
> I use these items to get this nut off?
>
> TIA.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
> Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>

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