> 
> At 08:03 PM 5/3/96 -0500, Ken Hooper wrote:
> >
> >>bolts holding your wheels on;  if you've never taken them off,
> >>you best look at them soon, at least BEFORE you get a flat on the
> >>road because ALL of my bolts were put on at the factory bone dry.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >I used to have to use a four-foot cheater to get mine off. Not just dry,
> >but almost 30 years old. They came off with the most awful creeeeaaaaakkk
> >sound.
> 
> 
> Boy did you guys miss a sight!  Sunday, we removed the front wheels from the
> '79 by means of me standing on one side of a 2' X-wrench, holding the other,
> and bouncing a bit.  Fortunately, there was a list member behind me to catch
> me as I went ass over teakettle, and four more to laugh.  I HATE MECHANICS
> WHO ARE SO DAMN PROUD OF THEIR 600 FT/LB PNEUMATIC WRENCHES!!!!
> 
> 
>                       Steve Dolan
>                            Steven Dolan
>                            Alexandrian, VA
> 
> '73 FI'ed Westy 
> 
> 
Yeah, and you guys should have seen that lug wrench when he was done!
It was (and I say was!) one of those 4-post cross types but Steve
actually managed to bend the thing getting those nuts off.  Wow :) .

I think I was one of the laughing four :) .  

Sean