Well, I tried every suggestion(except the one Turk PM'ed me about wearing women's panties
) and nothing worked. After several days of ridicule, humiliation, and sleepless nights, the wheel is finally off. No damage was done to the wheel, spinner, or car(although my lower back hurts a little).
How did Southernfriedcj8(an accomplishment of this magnitude deserves the third person) get the wheel off you ask? Well, I'll tell you.
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, as I contemplated a call to Mike(in Lawrenceville, thanks for the offer) to borrow his high dollar spinner removal tool and to our very own Toymolester(thanks for the offer) for a little help on Sunday, I decided I should give the spinner one more try. I got a 2' long piece of 2"x6" wood, and set one end on a spinner "leg"(which was parallel to the floor) and the other end on the pad of a raised floor jack. I then pulled out the trusty 20 pound sledge and proceded to knock the p!ss out of the board. The board, of course, busted and splintered, but there was no injury to man or machine, and no movement of the spinner. At this point I was thinking about the ride to Lawrenceville to borrow Mike's spinner removal tool, when I started thinking about the ant and the rubber tree plant. Never been a quiter, never will, I got a friend named sledge hammer. I proceded to whack the board about 10 more times. The last time something felt different. The spinner had moved slightly. I put the board back on and with one more whack, she was loose.
I didn't see any galling, and there was antisieze on the surfaces and threads. Maybe Jamo tightened it up when he wrote me the love note(I'll post a digital pic of said note in my gallery tonight).
In appreciate all the replies and moral support, and I'll get even with every last one of you Rat Bastids!
It's off! It's really off!
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