Dad - the car is making a funny noise

[caveman]

drop hammer and kiss bleeding knuckles

If your aims is that bad.....

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Tip for undoing tight wheelnuts.
Put a socket and bar on them.
Apply pressure to bar.
Smack the socket end above the nut with a hammer.

I arrived in a neighbours yard one day to find him and his farmhand trying to remove a wheel from the farm lorry. They had a pair of 10 foot scaff tubes on a tee bar and heaving away. Very glad to see me as now we could have a hand on each bar and use a sledgehammer on the end of the tee bar at the same time. So, heave away for dear life and bang bang away and me wondering what was going to break first. Nothing happened and the hammerer had to have a rest. I looked closely at the nut and just touched it raising a blister on my fingertip it had got so hot. When I got home I asked Dad ,who was a chartered mechanical engineer, how it had got so hot without actually moving. He explained it was just the twisting of the stud and nut under the pressure that was applied. He also commented that the stud would probably fail sometime in the future as a result of this misuse.

 

[caveman]

I arrived in a neighbours yard one day to find him and his farmhand trying to remove a wheel from the farm lorry. They had a pair of 10 foot scaff tubes on a tee bar and heaving away. Very glad to see me as now we could have a hand on each bar and use a sledgehammer on the end of the tee bar at the same time. So, heave away for dear life and bang bang away and me wondering what was going to break first. Nothing happened and the hammerer had to have a rest. I looked closely at the nut and just touched it raising a blister on my fingertip it had got so hot. When I got home I asked Dad ,who was a chartered mechanical engineer, how it had got so hot without actually moving. He explained it was just the twisting of the stud and nut under the pressure that was applied. He also commented that the stud would probably fail sometime in the future as a result of this misuse.

Hmmmmmm.
Thats not what I was suggesting.
If the nut doesn't crack after half a dozen or so clouts, then there is obviously a different approach needed. This sort of thing should sort most light vehicle wheel nuts.

 

[Cowabunga]

The drive to reproduce must be one of the strongest instincts in any creature.

There’s a hospital/home the other side of down for kids/young adults with a certain birth defect, the name of which escapes me but they all tend to have chubby happy faces although their brain capacity seems to be that of a very young child.
Many years ago they used to milk a few cows there, they used to help clean up after milking which basically involved smearing the few plops of cow sh!t all over the floor for the cowman to clean up afterwards such was their lack of capacity to perform a simple task yet as the dairy engineer pointed out, all them girls are on the pill because they could work out how to do that.
As I say, one of the most basic animal instincts.

Maybe Canadian women are more sensible but I’ve seen plenty of examples of women falling for wrong uns, it often ends badly for them yet they go for the same type again.

The women are mostly 'Karens' themselves I'm afraid. Birds of a feather...

 

[Pistonbroke]

I arrived in a neighbours yard one day to find him and his farmhand trying to remove a wheel from the farm lorry. They had a pair of 10 foot scaff tubes on a tee bar and heaving away. Very glad to see me as now we could have a hand on each bar and use a sledgehammer on the end of the tee bar at the same time. So, heave away for dear life and bang bang away and me wondering what was going to break first. Nothing happened and the hammerer had to have a rest. I looked closely at the nut and just touched it raising a blister on my fingertip it had got so hot. When I got home I asked Dad ,who was a chartered mechanical engineer, how it had got so hot without actually moving. He explained it was just the twisting of the stud and nut under the pressure that was applied. He also commented that the stud would probably fail sometime in the future as a result of this misuse.

Had that at my neighbor's and then realized they were left hand threads

 

[Tarw Coch]

The women are mostly 'Karens' themselves I'm afraid. Birds of a feather...

It’s just come to me, I couldn’t think of the name when I wrote the original post but the kids/young adults I was referring to had Down’s syndrome, it’s hardly their fault they are as they are but as I say, despite their problems, the desire to reproduce was still strong, it’s a basic instinct.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Had that at my neighbor's and then realized they were left hand threads

I've split a socket trying to remove the nuts on an Austin Gypsy, remember them?

 

[Netherfield]

I've split a socket trying to remove the nuts on an Austin Gypsy, remember them?

With the Rolls Royce engine?

 

[sjt01]

With the Rolls Royce engine?

That was the Champ

 

[Pistonbroke]

Good God that's a bit before my time! Dad had a Transit with a stock box and had a puncture just after buying it and went to town for another socket so I went to help ( only a kid) and after snapping a stud off and splitting the new socket,I asked if they ever turned the other way." Don't be so bloody dull" he said but the others did

I've split a socket trying to remove the nuts on an Austin Gypsy, remember them?

!

 

[Y Fan Wen]

With the Rolls Royce engine?

BMC 2.2, a popular conversion for the LR diesel at one time.

 

[Netherfield]

We put a Perkins 4.203 in a IIA, gearbox couldn't stand the torque, twice snapped a layshaft. The old LR diesel was pitiful though.

 

[onthehoof]

Had that at my neighbor's and then realized they were left hand threads

We had a few ex WD munitions trailers converted into bale trailers, Dad had a puncture on a roundabout and rung 2 nuts off before realising they were left hand thread, those trailers of which we still have 3 were left thread on the left wheels and right hand on the right wheels, easy if you know beforehand

 

[Nearly]

We had a few ex WD munitions trailers converted into bale trailers, Dad had a puncture on a roundabout and rung 2 nuts off before realising they were left hand thread, those trailers of which we still have 3 were left thread on the left wheels and right hand on the right wheels, easy if you know beforehand

Dad bought a trailer at a sale and some idiot had put the axle on the wrong way round. You used to have to tighten the nuts every day.