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Sure felt like 4,445 ft-lbs coming off!


I never unscrew the nuts, I split them w a nut cracker then chase the threads w a "thread chasing" die, not a regular die. road debris deforms the threads & they rarely come off easy but w the above new nuts will spin on by hand. Yes 45 sounds low but that's what the FSM lists




JUST GET a big breaker-bar !!




The breaker bar and pipe is HOW the U-bolts didn't successfully make the dis-assembly phase...