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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 32 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 32 | So i am in the process of installing the front disc conversion and i have removed the drums and now having issues on removing the backing plate from the spindle!!! Theres 4 bolts on both sides. I have removed 3 but on both sides i cannot remove the bottom bolt closest to the cab!! I have doused it in pb blaster and am unsing my impact gun and neither one will budge. Drivers side i removed the nut but the bolt wont spin or come out, and on the passenger side wont spin and cant get the nut off.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Before you mention it, i have the assembly manual and the shop repair manual neither in this case were much help in this case
Loving my new (old) '53 3100 5 window!
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | The Victor Hot Wrench is your friend. Very few bolts can resist the vigorous application of a little heat, especially since you're not planning to reinstall any of the stuff you're removing!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
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Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 32 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 32 | I looked up a victor hot wrench, and couldnt find any info?
Am i falling for a joke :-)
Loving my new (old) '53 3100 5 window!
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | | | | | | Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 32 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 32 | Oh ok a torch. I will try heat tomorrow morning. I thought there was a magically high tech heated socket wrench.
I need to market that idea!!
Thanks guys for the advice!
Loving my new (old) '53 3100 5 window!
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 893 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 893 | Gas Axe, red and green wrench, are a couple of other names for it. I'm sure there are others. Good luck with your stubborn bolts.
Brian
1955.2 3100 Truck
The older I get the more dangerous I am!!!!! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 161 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 161 | When I worked in a junkyard we called it a smoke wrench.Most valuable and most used tool we had.---Jack | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | Hot wrench round chere. (we also tend to say round chere, warsh, chimley, winder [the kind what gets cleaned by the winder warsher]. But we don't ever say WOOOO Doggy!
Carl
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 |
When I lived in Albemarle County we said something like wee doggie.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 32 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 32 | well I finally got the old bolts, backing plates etc off and the new brakes on and now to move onto the power booster/master cylinder install.
Loving my new (old) '53 3100 5 window!
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 3,399 Gas Pumper | | Gas Pumper Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 3,399 | Some of us opted to not go with the power booster due to the stock crossmember alterations, but if you need help with any of it, there are really knowledgeable people here to help! Good luck! | | |
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