How To Undo The 19mm Nut

[TaffyTim 6]

Having found the correct nut on the gearbox to top up the oil, i now need to get it off.

 

Im pulling at it with alot of force to try and undo this nut with a socket and its not budging!!!

 

Any tips?

[Normski 1]

More leverage, use a big swan neck ring spanner on the end of the ratchet or a deep 17 or 19 mm socket with an extention bar.

[welshpug 1,657]

lefty loosy righyty tighty sure its the right one?

[g60-r 0]

Get your self a long power bar. i.e a long bar to go on your socket. about £20 from a local tool seller. careful the socket doesn't slip or it will round the nut and you'll be buggered . to avoid this you can get a 6 sided socket from halfrauds, they call it an impact socket, there black and about £6-7. you'll sheer the bolt before these slip.

 

Faling that a gentle bit of heat around the nut area and shed loads of wd40

 

Failing that a bloody big sledge hammer

[TaffyTim 6]

lefty loosy righyty tighty sure its the right one?

 

 

 

Not guilty of this this time, i like the saying though

[TaffyTim 6]

Get your self a long power bar. i.e a long bar to go on your socket. about £20 from a local tool seller. careful the socket doesn't slip or it will round the nut and you'll be buggered . to avoid this you can get a 6 sided socket from halfrauds, they call it an impact socket, there black and about £6-7. you'll sheer the bolt before these slip.

 

Faling that a gentle bit of heat around the nut area and shed loads of wd40

 

Failing that a bloody big sledge hammer

 

 

ok back to halfauds tomorrow then as its starting to slightly round now.

[TaffyTim 6]

Just need to confirm for my sanity that this is the right nut:

 

[welshpug 1,657]

thats the bugger! should have a copper washer under it meaning it "shouldnt " be that tight, I'm guessing its not there though and someone has whacked it up tight.

[TaffyTim 6]

ta welshpug.

[hengti 2]

probably not a good idea if it has started rounding, but you can start most large nuts/bolts by clobbering the ratchet handle with a meaty hammer

 

ps. you want to be pushing and not pulling on that one

Edited April 26, 2007 by hengti

[sonofsam 5]

^Does work, but at the cost of maybe buggering the ratchet mech, especially if it's a cheap 'un.

 

Speaks from experience

 

Try wedging some tin foil round the bolt head before you put the socket back on to act as a shim.

Edited April 26, 2007 by sonofsam

[welshpug 1,657]

rattle gun! new copper washer and a torque wrench

[kate205gti 4]

scaffold pole :innocent:

[taylorspug 7]

Ive had a few of these go tight before, if i really cant undo them easily just by hand, a sharp crack with a hammer on the ratchet/spanner does the trick. Make sure you hold the socket 'against' the slack on the bolt (ie push the ratchet in the right direction before you hit it!), as otherwise the bolt has more chance of rounding off.

[welshpug 1,657]

dont whack the ratchet!

[taylorspug 7]

Balls to it, if it gets the bolt undone, il give anything a good clout!

[hengti 2]

dont whack the ratchet!

 

whack the ratchet!

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you'd be better off using a good ring spanner though - preferrably a swan-necked one

[Alastairh 47]

Grow some muscle!

[Guest Rombbb]

Grow some muscle!

 

 

[Ahl 4]

Its quite a shallow head on that one isn't it?

 

I think I used an impact driver to loosen one off before.

[taylorspug 7]

Yes the head is shallow, hence if you just keep pulling and pulling on it, its likely to round off or shear. A good crack will shock it loose and save completely ruining the bolt.

 

Impact driver would certainly also work!

[TaffyTim 6]

Im liking the technical approaches suggested above

 

Ive put a letre of oil in through the breather at the top and when the car is jacked and a wheel is turned the nasty noise has gone away

 

Are these pics of the my breather looking good, all it is is a plastic nut with a hole in it!! is it missing something?

 

 

 

Unfortunately Ive got a worse sounding noise which really doesnt sound good.

 

Ive started a new thread which includes this noise, come and have a listen.

http://forum.205gtidrivers.com/index.php?showtopic=74237

[Baz 421]

Yup that's how that should look, although should have a bung in the top, not too drastic if it's gone missing really though.

 

Is that hole there really for a would be reverse lockout cable or something though?

[welshpug 1,657]

yep.

[TaffyTim 6]

Ruber bung Hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

It wouldnt happen to look like the rubber bung thats horrizontally through the hole in the side of the spedo cable in the pic below?