ed
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If it's seized, how do you get it off? Bent my breaker bar and covered it in shit loads of WD40, but it still won't budge. Air gun isn't an option...
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Ditch
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heat the fcuker up...
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ed
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Ahhh, good idea, totally forgot about that... I always think angle grinder, but not blow torch 
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mike_1.2LS96
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Registered: 23rd Oct 03
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Mate if you dont want the driveshaft pull it out the gearbox end first. Its much easier. Just give it a quick yank, or use a crow bar
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ed
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Need the shafts... I think it's time to go buy a 5ft long breaker bar mwahahaha!
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Ian
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Can't you get a chisel in the side of it?
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ed
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Wouldn't that break the shaft?
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DaveC
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just a thought, you have removed the split-pin first yeah?
If not, then heating it will do it, just don't go too mad
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CorsAsh
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if it still refuses to come, you can get nut splitters from machine mart, that might work...
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Dan
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stop being a sissy and push/pull on it harder!!!
only jokin mate, try heating it up, if that still dont work, hit one of the flats of the nut a few times. it usually loosens any rust etc between the threads.
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myke
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no shit, i had exactl;y this problem last week.
one side came off without too much hassle, but the other side is a c*nt.
had the shaft clamped tight as fuck in a vice at work, with the 30mm socket on an 18" breaker bar trying to undo it.
first off split the bench slightly that the vice was bolted too. tried heating with blow torch, no use. tried knocking the bar with a club hammer, no good.
then tried a scaffold pole on the breaker to get extra leverage. tried with an extra 8in or so first. shaft was turning in the vice, even with a steel chocolate block holding it.
got pissed and tried another foot and a half of scaffold bar. breaker bar that i thought was invinsible bent at the end, and the knuckle split at the drive end.
i'll get a pic up later.
in the end had to take the whole strut/upright/hub/shaft assembly to a mate at a garage who buzzed it off with an air gun.
the dappy twat clamped the strut rather than the shaft though, and the cv boot was slightly down. you can guess that i went home pretty greasy; not to mention all of his bench and tool chest.
get the whole strut out of the car and take it along to a garage ed. get them to drive the hubs out too while your there.
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myke
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problem with the castle nuts is that the thread goes right up onto the turrets; so you'll be damaging the thread on the cv if you try and bash it round with a chisel.
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ed
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I did it, I bought the biggest braker bar halfods had, was about 3 foot long - came straight off 
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myke
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you get the hubs out ok then?
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PaulW
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Can't you get a chisel in the side of it?
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Originally posted by 1800ed
Wouldn't that break the shaft?
did this to mine, aslong as you dont smack it too hard & just persuade it, it should come loose.
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ed
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The hubs are still on for some reason, mu hub remover just pushed the CV joint out of the hub, I cant get the suspension off because my angle grinder is broken  I mean the nuts are all seized up and the top grip thingy just split open... So I cant get somone to do it for me.
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
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aye long breaker bar and cold snap it off
or heat it up well with a blow torch and snap it off
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ed
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Breaker bar is my new fav tool though now... He helped me a lot
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myke
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this is what i managed to do to my breaker bar on the calibra nuts last week. (one on the right obviously)
funnily enough, the corsa ones came off today a piece of piss.
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mike_1.2LS96
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Registered: 23rd Oct 03
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yer, its annoying when you break breaker bars 
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