IxnayOnTheTimmay (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ixnayonthetimma) wrote,@ 2008-05-05 17:00:00 |
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| Entry tags: | car, cat, life |
Blarg!
Unless you already read it in Jessika's journal, I have grave news to tell. My car is broken. More specifically, the hub nuts that prevent the wheel from falling off are broken. There are only two lug nuts on the front passenger side wheel, and there are supposed to be four. Repairing it has been a pain in the posterior, due to the fact that the bolts are clinging to the plate tighter than..um...a fat kid to his Pop-Tarts® Brand Sugary Tart Delights. I am at my wit's end with getting the bolts off, so I think I am just going to drill them out. I am not sure how much of the wheel hub I will be damaging by doing that, but at this point, I am out of options. Here is what I have attempted thus far to remove this oh-so tenacious of bolts.
1. Regular socket wrench (Stripped the bolt.)
2. Adjustable wrench (fell faster than the Orc army in The Return of the King after the Dead Oathbreakers of Dunbarrow showed up.)
3. Channel locks (Really stripped the crap off the bolt.)
4. Dremel tool with grinding wheel attachment (used to recut the hex shape of the bolt. The only thing that did work, though it didn't ultimately remove the bolt.)
5. Liquid Wrench Penetrating Oil (Did shit to loosen the threads.)
6. Tapping one side of the bolt with a flat tip to at least get it started (All that did was to shear off more metal from the now badly deformed bolt)
7. Holding socket wrench on as hard as I can with one hand to prevent slippage while pounding the handle with a hammer with the other hand (Just broke the socket wrench adapter bit. Cheap Wal-Mart-bought Chinese-made piece of crap.)
I am not sure what else I can do, other than to drill it out. I'd really hate to damage the brake disc, to which this panel is attached, because I am sure buying a new one of those will cost a pretty penny. Maybe, if I am lucky, I can go into work and machine new threaded holes into it before I would resort to that.
Bah!
Happy anniversary of birth to
toewigglingelf. I'd send her a cake-shaped birthday card, but I don't know her address. So here is the third next best thing!
NOTE: The green and yellow bottle like things are supposed to be bottles of Corona, one with a lime!
