frioman
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Yesterday was the day that I finally attempted to fix that slow tire leak on my M923A1 (14.00 x 20 tires). I'll admit, I decided to go the easy route and travel about 2 miles to a local tire shop -- I've seen dump trucks and 18 wheelers getting their tires service there. Uh...this was the right choice.
Once there I discussed the plan to replace the O-ring with the tire guys. They would remove the tire, split the wheel, and I would clean the wheel with my pneumatic drill and wire brush attachment that I brought. Afterwards I'd paint it and use some silicone grease on the O-ring and reassemble. Torque the two halves to 450 ft/lbs. Wheel onto truck at 250 ft/lbs.
The tire guys could have easily went right to work using an impact wrench; but for practice, I tried to remove the lug nuts (left threads) using WD-40, the lug tool, a breaker bar, a 3 foot long cheater pipe, and my 185 pounds. Ha! Nothing. Then a 275 pound guy came over and stood at the end of the pipe. Again...nothing.
After several attempts at this, they brought over the huge, heavy duty impact wrench. Oh yea, that did it! I say all this in hopes that it might help others while traveling. I THOUGHT that I was properly equipped. I THOUGHT that I had a long enough cheater pipe.
I either need to get a much longer pipe or see if my own impact wrench using the truck's air system will work. I'm glad I found out this way versus on the side of the road.
Once there I discussed the plan to replace the O-ring with the tire guys. They would remove the tire, split the wheel, and I would clean the wheel with my pneumatic drill and wire brush attachment that I brought. Afterwards I'd paint it and use some silicone grease on the O-ring and reassemble. Torque the two halves to 450 ft/lbs. Wheel onto truck at 250 ft/lbs.
The tire guys could have easily went right to work using an impact wrench; but for practice, I tried to remove the lug nuts (left threads) using WD-40, the lug tool, a breaker bar, a 3 foot long cheater pipe, and my 185 pounds. Ha! Nothing. Then a 275 pound guy came over and stood at the end of the pipe. Again...nothing.
After several attempts at this, they brought over the huge, heavy duty impact wrench. Oh yea, that did it! I say all this in hopes that it might help others while traveling. I THOUGHT that I was properly equipped. I THOUGHT that I had a long enough cheater pipe.
I either need to get a much longer pipe or see if my own impact wrench using the truck's air system will work. I'm glad I found out this way versus on the side of the road.
