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Removing Rusty spindles in junkyard
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Take the whole front end??
Mickey
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aeronca65t
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Usually, you can get most things off with a 1/2" drive, six-point socket (impact style is better) and a breaker bar with a six foot length of pipe slipped over it.
I've even used muffler pipe (with the muffler still attached!) if I can't scare up a piece of pipe laying around in the 'yard.
There are some modern sprays that act as a "liquid wrench" to help removal.
Otherwise, you could do as Mickey says, and remove the entire upper and lower "A" arms from the frame and take the whole lot.
I've even used muffler pipe (with the muffler still attached!) if I can't scare up a piece of pipe laying around in the 'yard.
There are some modern sprays that act as a "liquid wrench" to help removal.
Otherwise, you could do as Mickey says, and remove the entire upper and lower "A" arms from the frame and take the whole lot.
Bruce Bowker
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Have you tried PB Blaster? I love the stuff and use it constantly to remove frozen nuts and bolts.
Rick
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I have never had any luck with any of these types of products. Seems to me that the rust can be so bad that it simply blocks any liquid from going down far enough, if at all, to cut away at rust. I usually use a lot of heat.
But I have never tried this one and sure am willing to try it. How long do you usually leave it soak? And how bad rust are you talking about. I sometimes have things that are all but welded with rust.
Bruce
Have you tried PB Blaster? I love the stuff and use it constantly to remove frozen nuts and bolts.
Rick
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I have never had any luck with any of these types of products. Seems to me that the rust can be so bad that it simply blocks any liquid from going down far enough, if at all, to cut away at rust. I usually use a lot of heat.
But I have never tried this one and sure am willing to try it. How long do you usually leave it soak? And how bad rust are you talking about. I sometimes have things that are all but welded with rust.
Bruce
tony barnhill
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PB Blaster is what the guys in my local junkyard use...they gave me a can & its all I buy now....great stuff but you might have to give it 5 minutes
Bruce Bowker
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you might have to give it 5 minutes
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I was thinking more in days. That stuff sounds great.
Bruce
you might have to give it 5 minutes
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I was thinking more in days. That stuff sounds great.
Bruce
Salyers890
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might be stepping back to fundamentals here - sorry guys. . . .if you can't get it loose with the PB blaster (awesome stuff), and a breaker, try tightening it just a bit to break the rust. . . i find sometimes the rust is more on the exposed bolt than before the nut. . . . if all else fails, sometims a BFH works well to bust some rust free.
screenprinter
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When I go hunting Sprite parts I take the usuall complument of tools of destruction and, strapped to the back of my Pickup I take my pancake style 110v compressor, a 4" Side grinder with a cutting disk and my Generac 7500 watt gas powered generator - We bought it 2 years ago for emergency power ( We have hurricanes here, just like the people in FL) and so far the power hasn't even flickered once - I gotta get some use out of it somehow -
Anyway, most junkyards down here have rows that a truck can get down and when you're up against a really stubborn nut/bolt just break out the zizz wheel and nick it off -
Ridiculous overkill, I agree, but it works.
Anyway, most junkyards down here have rows that a truck can get down and when you're up against a really stubborn nut/bolt just break out the zizz wheel and nick it off -
Ridiculous overkill, I agree, but it works.