[AT] Removing wheel weights

Larry Marshall marshall at tstar.net
Tue May 10 15:24:23 PDT 2005


H.L,
  You haven't seen my welding :)  Actually, I think I got lucky here. I took
the wheels off and was able to get enough room for vise-grip pliers to latch
on to the round heads of the carriage bolts. A 15/16ths 12 point socket fit
on the square nuts. The pliers were just the right size to catch the
opposite side the wheel and with a 24" breakover bar on the socket, I got
all the bolts out. Some easier than others, but they all came out without me
destroying anything. The weights (not the nuts) were loose and over the
years/decades they had wallowed the shoulders off of the carriage bolts. The
square holes in the wheels don't look too bad.

One of these days, I'm going to have to build enough confidence in my
welding to try your suggestion.

Thanks

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "H. L. Staples" <hlstaples at mcloudteleco.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Removing wheel weights


Not sure what equipment you have available, my solution would probably
entail welding a nut to the head of the spinning bolt. (not while it is
spinning  8>])     Just hold the nut that is to be added with the ground
clamp and weld inside the nut to the the bolt. My experience has been when
welding inside a small hole is to run the welder pretty hot.  As an
alternate you could weld a piece of flat stock to the head of the bolt and
use the tool of your choice to hold the addition.

H. L. Staples
McLoud, Oklahoma
USA
-------Original Message-------

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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