On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 2:37:25 PM UTC-4, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:29:49 +0100, DerbyDad03 wrote:

On Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 2:03:20 PM UTC-4, philo wrote:
On 03/31/2016 12:14 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
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After a few raps, they tend to (hopefully) break free.

Honda rotors (and many aftermarket rotors for Honda) also have threaded
holes in their rotors so you can screw a bolt in against the hub and pop
the rotor off.




If the parts can take it, often heating with a propane torch will loosen
things up.

OD expands a fraction more than ID

I did that on car wheelnuts once. I think it worked, I can't remember,
I tried so many things. The final solution, as they kept tightening
during driving, was to get a very long breaker bar and jump up and down
on the end of it.




I've used the heating technique successfully many times for slightly
rusted nuts and bolts.


There was one time I had to remove a tire soon after I had a flat fixed.
They *way* over-tightened it so I put a long pipe on the end of my
"four-way" and ended up bending it all to hell.


I took the car back and told them thy put the wheel on too tightly,
then showed them my twisted "four-way" and said: "and I am NOT a weakling."


I later got a much better quality "four-way" my original was kind of a
cheap piece of crap.

I have always hated four-ways. Long ago, I made sure I had the proper
"single bar" tire iron for all of my cars.

Now I have the proper sized 1/2" sockets, a 25" breaker bar to loosen them
and a torque wrench to put them back on properly.

Even the rusted lugs on my trailer came right off after 2+ years of being
ignored. Breaker bars area so cool!

To put them back on, I just put them on with half the maximum force I can apply. That way I know I can apply twice the force to remove them later.


You do realize that every vehicle has specific torque values that they
want you to use, don't you?

My vehicles range from 80 ft-lbs to 94 ft-lbs.