RE: tip of the week, lug nut update

["Ralph Moorhouse" <ralphmo@domain.elided>]

I will whole-heartedly endorse this tip.  Its particularly good on those
long bolts that have no-threaded sections that sit inside a sleeve & corrode
(without anti seize). Anti-size even works well on exhaust slip joints -
several years later when you have to remove a section - they come apart with
a few taps with a hammer!

Ralph
Houston, TX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
> Brian Shorey
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 1999 2:02 PM
> To: alfa@domain.elided
> Subject: tip of the week, lug nut update
>
>
> here's my tip of the week - never sieze.  get some and use it.
>
> i just finished replacing the trailing arms on my spider (with the earlier
> ones).  the last time i had this stuff apart was probably 15 years ago.
> everything had been never siezed then, and it came apart today with very
> little effort, and no cursing required.
>
> unlike the lug nuts i was dealing with last week.  so far, the winner is -
> nobody!  it's not completely off yet.  the chiselers were probably the
> closest (we'll never know if the welders were right, since i don't have a
> welder), but even chiseling didn't get it off.  i ended up chipping away
> most of the lug, trying to get it to break, but it didn't.  right now i'm
> left with just the bottom tapered part of the lug holding the wheel on.
> honorable mention goes to the esteemed john hertzman (of north carolina),
> who also suggested drilling if nothing else worked.
>
> had the last person to have the wheels off used never sieze, i wouldn't be
> complaining right now.
>
> so, whether to make things easy for yourself next time around, or to make
> things easy for some future owner, use never sieze.
>
> bs
>
>

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