Re: [MV] IHC...making alphabet soup

From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 18:02:03 PDT


At 7:44 PM -0700 6/9/03, Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
>Try removing an M35 fender when one of the three 'large' bolts which
>holds it to the frame just forward of the cab door just spins in the
>frame-mounted captive nut. Use a hacksaw blade, covered at one end
>with an old cloth because there is no room to get a handle in there
>and not have the blade bind up, to cut the big bolt.. 3 hours and a
>few broken blades later, it was off. If my time were worth anything I
>could have bought a reciprocating saw.

OR an angle grinder. Or a dremel. OR some kind of power cutter.
Longest bolt removal I've done involved a seized in taper pin on the
Daimler Dingo. When I was finished, that sucker was all bent up.

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