I am having troubles getting off this damnn stubborn axle nut! In the process of replacing my clutch and have been at a standstill for too long because big this damn axle nut. Spent a couple hundred dollars on a damn impact ratchet and the pos won't even get it off! If anyone has any suggestions on what I should do, anything would help greatly.
I've never done this before and am teaching myself how to replace this clutch ony own. Spent hundreds of dollars on tools and shit to try and get this done myself and come out of this with some decent knowladge of working on my own vehicle. Since any shop I have talked to wanted to charge as much as I paid for the car to do it for me lol
you can try by get a good cheater bar and a jack stand and have 2 or 3 people stand on it, personally I wouldn't touch that axle nut unless I got a good cordless impact gun. The torque on that nut is really high (I thinking 250 - 280 ft -lbs)
Not a bad idea. Only problem I seem to be having with that is, idk if the 36mm bit I got is too big or what, but everytime I try to stand on it the bit just slips right off. And I did buy an impact for this, but idk if the one I got is just too weak, or if it somehow just doesn't work. Only used it one time but it seems like even the smallest amount of resistance and it just clicks n clicks. Spent more than 300 on it and the batteries n stuff only for it not to even work. Ughhh. Guess I might just have to find a better one. 😩
you got ripped off if you spent 'a couple hundred' on a Ryobi.. should have bought the tried and true Dewalt impact or the Milwaukee.. 220 is nowhere near enough...
get a breaker bar and some pipe to fit over the end of the breaker bar. Get a impact gun that car do at least 300 ft/lbs. For the crank pulley some shops need to use 1000 ft/lbs to get it off!
AT 200 ft/lbs.. it almost sounds like OP just got a 1/4" or hex shank impact and trying to remove the axle nut.. that won't work.. You need a 1/2" impact with much more power.
Ughhhh😩 thanks brother. Looks like I'll be getting a new one.
My advice; stop spending your hard earned $$ on expensive tools, when simple physics (read; cheap tools) works every time. As Archimedes said "give me a lever long enough and I shall move the world"
36mm axle nut socket + 1/2" breaker bar + 6ft length of schedule 40 pipe 1"dia will slip over the breaker bar. Even my measily 140lbs * 6ft = 840lb-ft of torque. This combo has worked for 99.9% of all bolts I come across (or I just snap the bolt or head off the breaker bar) other than my latest attempt for my axle nuts, funny enough.
Since heat expands metal.... 2 propane torches for 5-10mins, plus 6ft breaker bar = axle nut came right off.
Also, FWIW...... it looks like you've already spun the axle nut about 2/3 a revolution, based off the staked portion of the nut vs the cut-out in the axle, so it looks like SOMETHING you've been doing worked, at least a lil bit.
Make sure you un-stake the axle nut first, I have a Dewalt 1/2" drive XR brushless motor to do this type of stuff. The method I provided above is cheaper and all you owe is some beer to your friend.
My advice; stop spending your hard earned $$ on expensive tools, when simple physics (read; cheap tools) works every time. As Archimedes said "give me a lever long enough and I shall move the world"
36mm axle nut socket + 1/2" breaker bar + 6ft length of schedule 40 pipe 1"dia will slip over the breaker bar. Even my measily 140lbs * 6ft = 840lb-ft of torque. This combo has worked for 99.9% of all bolts I come across (or I just snap the bolt or head off the breaker bar) other than my latest attempt for my axle nuts, funny enough.
Since heat expands metal.... 2 propane torches for 5-10mins, plus 6ft breaker bar = axle nut came right off.
Good....lord. The mess....
I think I'd rather just buy one tool than do anything that's going on in that photo lol.
Dont...heat up wheel bearings bruv. They have rubber seals that may now be no good.
Spend money on useful tools, I say, OP.
Not like you're only going to use a good impact ONE time. You're doing a clutch. Its gonna come in super handy a million other times.
I would buy a quality impact ONE time. I think you can find the Ingersoll IQV20 1/2" is like $350-400 sometimes.
If you just need to remove the axle nut...get a long 1/2" breaker bar. Pull up on it....you don't stand on stuff to get it loose, that's bad practice. You'll strip the head of the nut trying to stand on it since it'll keep wanting to slip off.
My service manual says the torque spec for the axle nut is 181ft/lbs. I didn't unstake the nut and used a corded impact thats rated at 350ft/lbs.. buzzed it right off
