Elwood Balboa

Banned

• Aug 23, 2010

• #1

Me again, I'm trying to remove the swivel to axle bolts with everything else intact, just to slide the half shafts out enough to change the diff, but I have tried everything in my tool box and nothing fits, the closest I have is 5/8" or a 15mm hammered on, I can get a ring on one side but only an open end on the other, so when I give it some with 2 spanners interlocked the open ended one just twists off. Does anyone have any tips or know what size they're supposed to be so I can go buy something that fits? Wishing I hadn't bothered draining and undoing the diff nuts first,:doh: and it's ****ing down.:violin:

 

Dazz

New Member

• Aug 23, 2010

• #2

7/16" whitworth was the original bolt size ,5/8 is a fraction bigger,I used to grind them off and fit new ones(you will probably have to resort to the grinder for some of them anyway)

 

Elwood Balboa

Banned

• Aug 23, 2010

• #3

F**king Whitworth, I knew it, Thanks, I'll get the grinder out.

 

oxides

Well-Known Member

• Aug 23, 2010

• #4

Mr Whitworth - meet your nemesis, Mr Stilson!

 

Spyderman

New Member

• Aug 23, 2010

• #5

Elwood Balboa said:

F**king Whitworth, I knew it, Thanks, I'll get the grinder out.

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Without Mr. Whitworth, Land Rovers wouldn't exist.

 

Grippa

New Member

• Aug 23, 2010

• #6

Mr Whitworth is ok, I'd feckin shoot Mr Woodruff if I ever saw him though!

 

oxides

Well-Known Member

• Aug 23, 2010

• #7

Spyderman said:

Without Mr. Whitworth, Land Rovers wouldn't exist.

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Nor would we have the thou.

 

Elwood Balboa

Banned

• Aug 23, 2010

• #8

Spyderman said:

Without Mr. Whitworth, Land Rovers wouldn't exist.

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Whitworth invented the Land Rover? I'm putting that on Wikipedia.

 

Elwood Balboa

Banned

• Aug 23, 2010

• #9

Grippa said:

Mr Whitworth is ok, I'd feckin shoot Mr Woodruff if I ever saw him though!

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Woodruff is alright by me, a simple bloke, bit of a one trick pony though.

 

Elwood Balboa

Banned

• Aug 23, 2010

• #10

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_NA24lcD0"]YouTube- Bob Woodruff - The Year We Tried To Kill The Pain[/nomedia]

 

Spyderman

New Member

• Aug 23, 2010

• #11

Elwood Balboa said:

Whitworth invented the Land Rover? I'm putting that on Wikipedia.

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Whitworth invented the Micrometer which made mass production possible, without the means of accurately measuring things, the industrial revolution would never have happened. Before Whitworth every nut & bolt had to be made as a matched pair.

 

Elwood Balboa

Banned

• Aug 23, 2010

• #12

Spyderman said:

Before Whitworth every nut & bolt had to be made as a matched pair.

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That is not true, each manufacturer had their own measuring system, at best, Whitworth improved on someone else's machine design, and luckily for him it took off. Some old bloke made some bolts, and those same bolts went on to cause annoyance and confusion in front of my house, then I destroyed them with my angle grinder, which I believe was invented by the angle gabriel, and was the catalyst for the destroyitall revolution, but I'm tired of rebelling now, you can have Whitworth, I've moved on.

 

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