Stuck Pin-drive wing nut?

[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.