Re: [ihc] Spindle nut socket, 3/4T and beyond!

[bearbvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Hermann)]

At 2:53 PM 6/1/04, Joel M Brodsky wrote:

When looking for spindle nut sockets, I have ALWAYS been able to find one
that worked between Proto and OTC. The Proto's are particularly nice, made
out of Aluminium. The OTC's are the usual fabricated steel, but have a bit
more coverage than the Proto line. The eight sided one for the RA15 with
six lug bolt hubs came from OTC, and I think they were the ONLY folks who
had one.

Greg

>When I wanted to do the bearings and seals in the axles on my '74 200 4x4
>Travelall I ran into the same problem, I couldn't find a socket that fit.
>The rear hub is very deep and the sockets I found in that size had rounded
>corners.  I bought a round cornered socket and carefully took my hacksaw
>and cut through the walls of the socket to match up with the flats on the
>inside edges of the socket.  I then mig welded some 1" wide, 1/8" thk steel
>straps (each bent to 120deg.) around each of the corners, (x6).  So now I
>have a hugely heavy socket with perfectly hex shaped corners inside, and
>beefed up outsides that just *barely* fits inside the hub..
>If could figure out how to upload the pics, I could post a few if someone
>was interested.  I'm still late on the pics from my 0-ga cable crimper and
>can't figure out how to upload those either.  If I took pics, they'd be on
>the order of 1.5MB each at 4.0 MP.
>
>Let me know, and I can send pics one at a time or try some other method.
>
>-JoelB