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- southeast Indiana
To date I have flipped 17 lunettes on m105a2 trailers and have never run into any problems like I read about on here. I use two big combination wrenches to do it. A 1 1/2" of course to turn the nut and any of a number of large wrenches (1 5/16" up to 55mm) that I put behind the nut that acts as a backstop to drive the nut against when backing it off the threads so it applies pressue against the lunette. Only two of them did I have to use a hammer on and those took only about 6 or 8 good whacks as I turned the nut to apply pressure. I have never had to use heat or penetrants for any of them.
This procedure has never failed on any of the ones I have done and I live in the middle of the rust belt here in Indiana so you can bet some of them were pretty crusty inside.
This procedure has never failed on any of the ones I have done and I live in the middle of the rust belt here in Indiana so you can bet some of them were pretty crusty inside.
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