Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: First breaker-bar of the summer!!!
From:Michael Ham '64 Type ][
Date:Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:56:42 -0700 (PDT)

I'm lucky that we have a 3/4" drive ratchet, it whieghts like 15-20 pounds
and scares
those nuts off any old bus.  With a 6 foot lenght of aluminum army tent
pipe, my little self can tourque on and off to 250 lb specs.

If you can't afford one of these just get a crasfman bar and try your
hardest to break it
weekly.

>>I got up, the socket was still sitting on the axle nut as though this
>entire event >hadn't occurred.  Looking around, I retrieved the breaker-bar
>from under the
>>bus... Yes Volks, the driver nib was still in the socket...sheared
>>clean off as though someone had cut it.  Determined not to let this
>>little set back ruin an otherwise "good" day, I immediately found an
>>optimistic angle to the situation: "Hey, not everyone has sheared off
>>a 3/4" drive breaker-bar...especially without using a length of pipe."
>
-
http://www.wolfenet.com/~hoomon
The man in the 11 window Split!