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Originally Posted by California98Civic
A 150 ft/lbs torque wrench done this way could not get it to budge. A 300 ft/lbs electric torque wrench just failed to do it. I now have an 800 ft/lbs compressed air wrench ... gotta hook that bad boy up. Something's got to give...
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Torque wrenches? Please don't tell me you were using torque wrenches as breaker bars...
You'll probably want to get those calibrated if you did.
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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Took all day and three trips to the big box stores, but I got it! But the secret recipe was 6' galvanized steel pipe on a breaker bar balanced on an extra jack stand I borrowed. The 800 ft/lbs impact could not remove it. Grrrr!
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Awesome! You can move the world with a long enough lever! I figured I was somewhere around 600ft-lbs by the time she let go