Hey guys, went to take of rims to check out my brake calipers, and i broke a wheel brace, i mean wtf,?!?!? its am import and i dont know how long they have been on there for... any suggestions?
you broke your brace??? how were they tightend last time your wheels were put on? if at a shop chances are they used a gun and overtightened them... try putting a breaker bar at the end of a ratchet just to break loose the nut....or buy a new wheel brace
huge breaker bar... if that fails get a 2 metre long tube and stick it over the breaker bar..... you are undoing them .. 2 the left !!
Big breaker bar, possibly even with an extension. i hate taking off wheel nuts that they do up with rattle guns
The bloke i go to still uses a hand brace then torque wrench to fininsh.Blew me away the first time i watched him.Have never had this done before and was impressed.I will go back every time for shore.He said you could warp the rear disks if you used a rattle gun to tighten ?
There are special torque extensions you can put on a rattle gun that will rattle it up to the perfect torque every time. But very impressive to do it up by hand and a torque wrench.
wd40,leave an hour with a socket and extension bar,place a hydraulic jack under the end of the extension bar,couple of pumps and they will crack loose
its also a good way of cracking the refill plug on the side of the diff,best way with that is have the extension bar nearly on the ground and lower the jack on the car very gently ,its amazing the amount various ways of using leverage on a jack
I use a 12V impact wrench to undo nuts. Cost me $30. I use a ratchet to do them up though, don't want to impact them when doing up I like my rotors only slightly warped!
go back to whom ever tightened the wheel, ask him to undo the nuts using a brace then get a new brace from him. Now fit all new studs to your hubs as the existing ones are screwed, stretched in other words and may break whilst driving, spaeking from experience. managed to break all 5 studs during a trip from Rockhampton to Brisbane but thankfully the last two broke doing 40 kMH. I replaced all studs and test the old studs and managed to stretch / break a further 7 studs. The wanker / tyrefitter working for Tyrepower had used a rattlegun so now all nuts are tightened by hand using a wheel brace with me watching.
im so anal ,i take my own wheels off and take them down to be fitted with new tyres or balanced,keeps with my motto(no prick is going to touch my cars lol)-true story !!!
Im the same LOWZX, take them there then put them back on myself. Hey Mikey5555 i saw ur zed comin over alfords point bridge, looks real good. Did you diy that centre panel to light up red?
haha really, when bouts? where u in a zed (hope so) ummmm nah I bought it like that, looks like a 2k spec panel in the day and at night it lights up red (best of both worlds hehe)
At the lights at menai once you come over the bridge headin south. I think it was thurs evening, nah wasn't in the zed, you will see it goin around end of next week. I got a silver Aus spec with 19"s
