Re: wheel bolts won't budge

Posted by Michael Soldan on September 07, 2003 at 19:54:07 from (216.46.130.10):

In Reply to: wheel bolts won't budge posted by bill on September 07, 2003 at 19:01:12:

Bill, I got a '44 H a few years ago and I had a heck of a time, I even broke my neighbour's Johnston bar...I felt dumb going into the supply store and buying two Johnston bars..one for me and one to replace my neighbours. Anyway, the easiest way to get the clamp bolts out is to heat them with a torch and douse them with cold water. I work in an auto shop and there isn't a day goes by that we don't heat something and douse it to loosen it. As for the bar, if you break the bolts off you may get the wheel off the axle and then you will need to get the broken bolts out of the blocks. I broke one once and I just got another pair of blocks from the tractor wrecker, they were cheaper than I could get the broken bolts out for. If you have a torch then heating and cooling is the way to go. I even had to heat and cool each bolt that holds the clamps around the rims on the rears. Once I got them off I put anti-sieze on each and reassembled them. After you get the blocks loose you still need to do a lot of pushing, prying and wiggling to get the wheel off the axle. Good luck from Mike in Exeter Ontario

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