Nut from hell - AE92 driveshaft nut

[jezza323]

use a breaker bar, i found a 1m breaker bar at trade tools.......then i add another metre of pipe on the end.......this is what i needed to get the nuts off

also if u do the method through the centre of the wheels with the car on the ground, you must do it by pushing down, not pulling up, as u lift the wheel off the ground and it spins....although i suppose you could get someone to stand on the brake pedal for you instead.

[Dale]

As above, breaker bar is what's required! Then a jack handle

[Grega]

used breaker bar
thats what bust my tools

[Cuzzo]

Have you tried soaking it in INOX or hitting it with a hammer a couple of times first?

[Duk]

You can hire 3/4" drive electric impact guns from industrial hire companies (Coates Hire where I am), but only use impact style (black, 6 side not 12 point) sockets.
If you do decide to put some heat into it, DON'T heat it to much. For starters the heat will go into the stub axle and cause it to expand like the nut (illiminating the bennifit of heating the nut), and secondly you can wreck the heat treatment that has been applied to the nut and stub axle (BAD).
Heat the nut as quickly and as evenly as you can. Avoid aiming the heating flame where you don't want it (duh ). You shouldn't have to get it any hotter than 120 degrees C.

[legend]

use a 3/4 drive braker bar and pipe

[Grega]

yeah, not keen on heating it guys. not doing that.
3/4 or 1" socket and breaker FTW i reckon.
anyway i'll take it to my mates prolly on the weekend to see if we can get it off.....he does this for a trade so we'll get it.

[jezza323]

a 3/4" rattle gun with the appropriate socket and decent air pressure will get it off no worries.

[Grega]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and the answer for all you fine folks



can of johnnie : $3
inox : $10
30mm socket (deep) : $38

FYi : the socket for this *$&t of a nut is 30mm folks. u need a deep socket to get it too.
there are two companies that make sockets, teng tools $38 socket and another company which is $78. The $78 was not in stock as i'd have bought that, but, the $38 jobby did the trick.

used Inox yet?

karl i want to have your babies. inox FTW

thank you very much to the fine people of toymods and this thread for your contributions. one thing i was saying to bubba today was how good a forum this is for people helping other people.

[Dale]

johnnie walker being the most useful thing... giving you the patience to go on

[Grega]

yeah. something give me strength

[The Witzl]

i think my 30mm deep impact socket cost me around $30... but it is a tool you DEFINITELY need when playing with FWD corollas.

I also use a 1.2m long length of 1" gal pipe, named "the manipulator", to crack these nuts and then do them back up again.

Glad to hear you got it, and even better to hear you have learnt the wonders of Inox.

[takai]

Yeah, i got mine for $25, and used a 1" rattlegun.

[The Witzl]

Yeah well not all of us have one of these fandangled "rattle guns" like a girl would use.... we use good old fashioned brute force.

[Grega]

i've got the 1/2" rattle gun but that wouldn't crack it either
it needed my breaker bar and 102kg of fat fvck standing on it to move it.