[AT] Removing wheel weights

John Boehm rustyacres at yahoo.com
Tue May 10 13:56:39 PDT 2005


Use the "hot wrench" (cutting torch). You'll want to
get new bolts if the heads are stripped and turning,
anyway.

John Boehm
Woodland, CA
Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com


--- Larry Marshall <marshall at tstar.net> wrote:
> I need to remove the wheel weights from the front of
> my Cub and am in search
> of ideas before I get out the artillery. I don't
> know whose idea it was, but
> they were put on with square headed nuts. The
> carriage bolts are either too
> small for the holes or the holes are rounded off,
> because they just spin.
> The nuts appear to take a 13/16 inch open end wrench
> that does me no good
> except tell me the size. I don't have a socket that
> will fit and finding one
> may not help since the bolts just spin. Current
> thinking is to remove the
> wheels and drill/grind/chisel the bolt heads off.
> 
> Anybody have any less destrucive ideas?
> 
> Larry Marshall
> Burnet, TX
> 
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