Buy a 60 inch length of 1 1/4' Sched 40 black iron pipe from Home Depot
or Lowes for under $20.

Mike B.

On 9/29/2013 2:37 PM, Scott Daniel wrote:
> nice find.
> nowyou need a good long, about 3 feet, solid cheater bar to use with
> your two new tools.
>
> even standing on the end of a very stout 3 1/2 long cheater bar
> sometimes in not enough to unscrew that mutha.
> I've had to heat a few of those nuts ( like one out of dozen or so ) ..
> in one extreme case ..even with heating ...the nut galled the threads on
> the stub axle taking the nut off.  Both nut and stub axle were ruined.
> That only happened once in dozens of years though.
>
> it's good to take things like the rear axle nut and flange apart once in
> a great while ..make sure their not seized badly with rust etc.
>
> scott
>
>
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> On 9/29/2013 4:01 AM, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
>> I'm not looking forward to ever needing the 46mm socket for the big
>> rear axle nut, but have always kept that measurement (and its
>> standard 1 13/16" equivalent) in mind in case I trip over one, which
>> I recently did.  Of course, after buying I find that NAPA stocks the
>> non-metric one for $25 (on sale this week for $16!) but that Ohio
>> antique mall was fairly boring until I hit a huge booth full of tools
>> and the $5 find that is now living under the back seat of the '87
>> Westy with its new Harbor Freight 3/4" drive breaker bar.
>>