Stuck Pin-drive wing nut?

[strictlypersonl]

This looks interesting. I might make something similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6076Mbxfo&t=141s

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by strictlypersonl

This looks interesting. I might make something similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6076Mbxfo&t=141s

No. This baby is what you want. It'll pop the spinner loose even if you mixed up the antiseize with JB Weld.

[rads42]

Clever little tool but $200 is an insane price for that. $50-$60 would be more like it.

[DanEC]

I think he was using this.

Cobra Valley's Spinner Removal Tool

I bought a slightly used one a few years ago from a forum member. Works well - not fast - but works.

[patrickt]

I had one spinner on a front wheel that was a little tighter than usual. My little removal tool with the torque multiplier actually spun the front tire on my garage floor.

[Ron61]

Patrick,

Did you make that tool or buy it from some manufacturer? And if it spun your tire on the floor your spinner must have been a little more than just a little tight.

Ron

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Patrick,

Did you make that tool or buy it from some manufacturer? And if it spun your tire on the floor your spinner must have been a little more than just a little tight.

That tool is 100% homegrown, as we say.... It started out from the Finishline billet aluminum spinner piece that I had a machinist cut and mill to fit a big impact socket. That worked well, provided you had an impact gun and a compressor by your side. Then, when I was showing it off to Silverback over on the TC site, he asked why I didn't use a torque multiplier on it so you could remove it by hand. So I bought that big ass torque multiplier that puts down roughly 5,000 ft/lbs of torque. That worked better, but tended to torque upward a bit as you were cranking it. So I built that clamp bracing contraption using a really strong clamp from Alabama Clamp Co. along with all Grade 8 hardware and all going through three stacked 2 x 10's. It quickly disassembles and is really kind of fun to use. That build was outlined here: I Can Remove My Spinners With One Finger But I agree that I might have put that spinner on a little too tight. I only use that contraption to remove the spinners, never to put them on. I use the traditional big lead hammer for that, but I think I suffer from the "give it one more whack" syndrome. But it's not like the car was doing a front end burnout in the garage. As I would torque it up by cranking the handle the tension increases and then you hear a tire squeal and the tire spins maybe a half inch and all your torque is gone! At first I thought "well great, what am I going to do now?" And then I realized all I had to do was stick a broom between the back of the seat and the brake pedal and the problem was gone. I still probably overtightened them when I put them back on. That syndrome is hard to kick.

[Ron61]

Thanks for the answer. I had looked and couldn't find anything anywhere that even resembled your setup.

Ron

[S1965C]

Originally Posted by rads42

Clever little tool but $200 is an insane price for that. $50-$60 would be more like it.

If you had free access to machining tools. Or are willing to have a 1,000 of them made in China. On specialty tools sometimes you just have to swallow hard and pay the bill.

[KarlzEE Bebout]

"swallow hard and pay the bill." Or have a friend that will loan one

[Ron61]

Clever little tool but $200 is an insane price for that. $50-$60 would be more like it.

That is the tool that I use but I got mine years ago and it wasn't $200 then. It works well but I can't use a ratchet on mine as the video shows them doing. Mine has a molded soft plastic cap on the end to keep the nut from falling off. However I do use a ratchet closed end ranch on it that I got from Sears years ago for about $6.

Ron

[NROTOXIN]

The ratchet was to get the nut butted up against the body of the 911 tool for speed of illustration. The nut can be easly turned by fingers for same result. From there a ratcheted box wrench works the best for speed.

This 911 tool, unlike other(s), utilizes the wheel, not the ground (Garage floor), as reference leverage to loosen the knockoff.....this method prevents tire spin and the need for Brooms N Brakes. One I can see stored in the trunk if so desired, the other(s)........