spinner wrench

[TButtrick]

anyone use one of these? comments? does it work with an impact wrench?

[Nedsel]

Got one last year. I'm still trying to figure it out.

[maurice19]

I haven`t used mine yet,but I believe you just use a long pipe in the end.

Maurice

[wtm442]

If you want one, I'll sell you mine.

It will not work with an impact wrench.

[Kramer]

never used one, however I heard they don't work. I even met a gentlemen that milled one out of raw aluminum to use with a rachet and could not get it to work right...and this guy works at a superformance dealer. A buddy mine (also a cobra owner) went to purchase one and he talked us out of it.

[bnewell]

I use mine as a paper weight........looks nice on my desk.

[xracerbob]

I'm going to try and make one using a large diameter impact socket by milling out 3 windows for the ears and filling the inside of sthe socket with Devcon so it will match the profile of the spinner. I don't think a 1/2" impact wrench will do it so I'm going to use a 3/4" drive.

We'll see how it works. I won't have my car for a couple more months, so patience is required .

[Kramer]

Xracerbob..I have seen something just like you are referencing...again, the head wrench at our superformance dealer created one from a solid piece...and still wouldn't recommend anyone in his shop trying to use it.

Good Luck...be interested to hear the outcome.

[patrickt]

A three foot piece of pipe and then you tighten it up with those little doo-hickeys that you would use if you ever lifted free weights. Here's a shot:

[Kramer]

looks nice...does it work?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Kramer

looks nice...does it work?

Yep, with one hand on each end you can put a heck of a lot of torque down on it. Remember to use anti-seize when putting the spinners back on and don't keep pounding with the hammer. After a whack or two the sound changes; that's your cue to stop -- then safety wire.

[JBo]

I have used mine once to remove a severely jammed knock on on my AK. Worked like a charm. Not a pretty a set up as the 2 prior emails, used a small diameter steel bar through the bars, leaned into the boss with my knee and one up/one down. Did have to mind the bar slipping in the through holes though. Antiseise, appropriate use of hammer and safety wire means never having to use it again I hope. AK guys in England have made up one by cutting slots in a 3" steel socket and fitting a breaker bar. I would be careful with a 3/4" impact...although I had pounded on one ear so hard it had to be the equal of that.But the impact is going to put rapid repeated blows on the knock on simutaneously on all three ears, but I'm not an engineer.

[TButtrick]

Thanks for the replies all. I'll stick with the lead hammer. Put anitseize on the mating surfaces of the spinner and wheel as well... right? I just galled the sh!t out of one my new spinners. DUH!

[xracerbob]

The pin drive wheels we used on the race cars used one large nut in the center that was approximately the same size thread as the knock off. The torque spec was 450 ft/lb if I remember right. A 1/2" impact could conceiveably do it, but it would be easy for a 3/4" tool. (I've been involved with these things since 1980).

Of course I could always go up to the BIG tool:

http://www.irtools.com/IS/product.asp-en-2916

3.5" square drive, 80,000 ft lb, $49,500. Sockets start at about $2,000 ea.

[SantaFe66]

It would be far better to anti-seize the threads and mating surfaces, whack it a few times to tighten, then safety wire it on. Getting it off is much simpler with a lead hammer than boogering it up with that socket thing.

I'll have to admit that the big pipe thingy that patrickt showed us looks much better than the 3/4" impact wrench though. At least with that you would be able to tell when you've put too much torque on the spinner.

Lead hammers have worked just fine for years. Used a small one on my MG in the 60's.

Paul

[chopper]

This comes up periodically. Here is an old thread on the subject. FTR, if I hadn't had that wrench, I'd probably still be trying to get the spinners off the car.

Aluminum vs stainless steel wheel spinners