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| Author: | Mike Holmes [ Tue May 06, 2008 8:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Tip of the day |
I thought i would share this with you , if you ever have to change your tyres or do something which involves taking your wheels off.............always use a 19mm hexzon 6 sided socket Why ? Because i used a normal 19mm socket to take my wheels off , but i rounded two of them off, because they had be done up with an air-gun.............3 hours later after drilling them off and a lot of swearing. I managed to do it ok , as i had some spare nuts Be-warned MIKE |
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| Author: | tr7v8 [ Tue May 06, 2008 8:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tip of the day |
Preferably use a flank drive socket rather than one that drives on the points, not a vast amount of dosh from Halfords. The other thing is to make sure the socket is fully engaged to full depth, otherwise you can cam the head off leaving a portion behind. The Porsche Workshop manual even refers to this. |
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| Author: | Sean Smallman [ Wed May 07, 2008 7:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tip of the day |
I would also invest in a Torque wrench and buy a soft socket to save scuffing those new wheel nuts. I broke 3 of my wheel nuts when I first bought the Speedster. |
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| Author: | sam [ Wed May 07, 2008 7:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tip of the day |
All wise words , another point is that tyre firms , or garages should not be using nut runners on these wheels/nuts/cars anyway , if you see some Herbert picking one up near your car , request that they decist , a refusal would be foolish and I am sure would be met with understanding, if not I would take my custom elsewhere . All wheelnuts should be torqued up , if they are made of soft alloy even more so |
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