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I am sure many of you encounter situations where your nuts or bolts stay on the rim, causing you to accidently break it off.  Now, if you ever get those hard-to-remove nuts whether from rust or whatnot, you can use this method of heating wax with propane gas near the nuts and bolts to get them totally loosened.

I’ve personally broken a rim stud before, and needless to say, I wish I had known how to do this back then.

I have a trick that has been around for a long time. This is a trick we used to use for exhaust manifolds when the bolts were so rusted in that breaking a bolt was very likely to happen. To avoid having to remove the stud in a separate process we used this trick to get them loose. This works better with a fair amount of heat to start and then let the wax slowly cool for about 3-4 minutes before attempting to remove the bolt of nut.

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Tags: bolt, DoItYourself!, exhaust manifolds, long time, nuts and bolts, rim, rust, rusted nuts, stud

This entry was posted by max on Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 10:50 am and is filed under A+Featured Auto, Auto, Cars, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Gadgets, HOWTO, Pyro.