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Just checking, what size is the castle nut on the rear hub???? 46mm???
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IIRC yes..
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Does your torque wrench go that high :shock:
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a piece of scaffolding pole and two fat blokes.is the usual way of torquing them up...

Does your torque wrench go that high
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and before you ask Jammc69... No

not fat enough :D
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R0B wrote:a piece of scaffolding pole and two fat blokes.is the usual way of torquing them up...

Does your torque wrench go that high

Nut with ten slots is 500 Nm= 678 ftlbs = Three fat blokes
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pah.you must only know thin fat blokes... :)


Nut with ten slots is 500 Nm= 678 ftlbs = Three fat blokes
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bigherb wrote................

Nut with ten slots is 500 Nm= 678 ftlbs = Three fat blokes

Steady on, three fat blokes perhaps but...... 500 NM is only 369 lbs/ft. :shock:

Which is only 184.5 lbs on the end of a two foot pole,
or 92.25 lbs at the end of a four foot pole,
and even I can tip the scales over 92 lbs. :oops:
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Grun wrote: and even I can tip the scales over 92 lbs. :oops:

I should hope so at six and three quarter stone...

but a fat bloke can apply the continuous torque..(no jumping)



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kev,
I could pose for the ' before ' in the Charles Atlas advert, :oops: always did get the sand kicked in my face, :shock: and ( Fortunately) never got the girl. :lol:
Currently, 11 stone... 154lbs ...70 kgs... fully clothed, soaking wet.

Tighten 'till it strips the thread and then back off to the nearest split pin hole we used to (jokingly) say!!

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46mm... Thats bloody big... Why can you never find one big enough!!! :roll:
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I've got one you can borrow, i've pm'd you.
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shepster wrote:I've got one you can borrow, i've pm'd you.

Thanks mate have pm'd you back!
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Do the rear castle nuts undo normaly or is the N/S a left hand thread? I will have to take mine into a garage where they do wagon tires, and get them to get this off by air, as i have broken 3 T bars?
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the n/s isn't a left hand thread.

is the N/S a left hand thread?
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