First ever Wellington AUStarion Meet

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JPC
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Post by JPC »

CussCuss wrote:breaker i used to get the trans filler bolt undone was about 5' and i had to put ALLOT of force on it, fuck that thing was done up stupid tight.
Hey, I did that a couple of days ago. I used a sawn-off metal mop handle (didn't have anything else handy at 1am). I had to put one foot on the gearbox, brace the other against a hard place and go through my entire vocab of expletives three times :)
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1983 JA, 1984 JA, 1985 JB (all rego'd, all running :D )
CussCuss
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Post by CussCuss »

i know how you feel, mine was made that much harder by the fact the outside of the nut was basically round, took a welder on full power to get a strong enough weld to hold another nut on to it strong enough.
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WANTSOM
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Post by WANTSOM »

JPC wrote:

"..... and go through my entire vocab of expletives three times"



.... and we all know those words from working on our babies hey :)
They're located in appendix "F" in the workshop manual
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