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[Ronnie]

Nice, tis the season soon, just booked our flights for 28th April, Boca pass here we come .
No, not a dealer now, sold up and moved to the Wild West, well, the Welsh coast .
@Ronnie yes, the Diablo was everything you'd expect, loud, Leary, impossible to park, hot and expensive, but fantastic in its entirety. Pure HP from a normally aspirated V12 with straight through sports exhausts .

thanks for responding. I'm jealous and may have been better off not knowing that it is all the it's hyped up to be.

 

[Ronnie]

I picked these up tonight when I saw them at my local hardware store. I hope to never use them and on the flip side to remember I have them if I ever need them.



Here are a few boat related pics. I am in the process of replacing my stock impellers with some aftermarket units. Right now I just need to get the impellers off the shafts. I though I broke the first one free only to find that I broke the crescent wrench i was using instead.

 

[Big Shasta]

I picked these up tonight when I saw them at my local hardware store. I hope to never use them and on the flip side to remember I have them if I ever need them.

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Here are a few boat related pics. I am in the process of replacing my stock impellers with some aftermarket units. Right now I just need to get the impellers off the shafts. I though I broke the first one free only to find that I broke the crescent wrench i was using instead.

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They are seriously tight. I used a LONG box end wrench for the most thread engagement. Slid it over the shaft then put it in the spline tool. You're gonna need a bigger tool

 

[Ronnie]

@Big Shasta, Yeah I figured but the store is not open yet and the only bigger tool I have is the one god gave me, no owners manual but I'm not using it anywhere near a vise, not a metal one anyway, lol.

I plan to do what @CrankyGypsy did. That is use a long 27 mm box wrench (minus the vehicle sitting on a vise if I can avoid it) if I can find one. Pepboys should be open in a few hours, I may just bring the assemblies down to them to see of they can loosen them up for a few dollars each but it wouldn't hurt to have the big box wrench around for future use.

 

[Ronnie]

Should I consider heating everything up with a torch yet? I'm thinking if it comes to that I should just pay someone to do make it happen. Just need to remember that the impellers are reverse threaded.

 

[Murf'n'surf]

Should I consider heating everything up with a torch yet? I'm thinking if it comes to that I should just pay someone to do make it happen. Just need to remember that the impellers are reverse threaded.

How do the bearings feel? Smooth?

 

[CrankyGypsy]

@Ronnie I'd definitely go get the wrench ...at the very least, you have to put everything back together.

 

[Ronnie]

Bearings are fine but damn this thing is on there tight. Pep boys already told me they are not familiar with it so they won't touch it. Definatly not what i wanted to see ( or hear) this morning.

 

[Ronnie]

Nearly tore my vise out of the bench with all my weight and strength but it still didn't budge. Wtf? I need a nap so just about ready to throw in the towel and take it to a shop. Not in a hurry to turn in my man card for the day so I will keep trying but damn, I'm still on the first of two of these things.

Incidentally, pep boys didn't carry 27mm so I went with 1 1/16th instead and it seems fine. Cost was $13.

 

[Murf'n'surf]

Those are reverse threads ....correct?

Are you actually trying to tighten it @Ronnie ?

 

[CrankyGypsy]

@Murf'n'surf as long as he is pushing down, he's doing it correctly.

@Ronnie ha, you may actually have to drop a vehicle on that vice after all! I'm 170# and I put everything I had into it with a little bounce while wrapping the wrench and wearing a glove because it hurt my hand without it. and it didn't just slowly free up, it suddenly "snapped" loose with a loud crack. I also gave mine a few shots of PB Blaster over a few days while I waited on the shaft tool.

 

[Ronnie]

Per crankgypsy's they are reverse threaded. My work space is oriented like that in crankgypsy's pics and I am pulling down on the wrench per the write up (reverse thread/clock wise to losses), so I think I'm doing it correctly, just not enough horse power / man power on my end (I'm working out and drinking milk but hey ...). I'm going to continue this on my 2015 preseason mods thread. Thanks for commenting.

 

[Ronnie]

Another new sight for the day.

My boy getting 1st place in his age group, 8th overall In his His first 10k.

 

[Jim Robeson]

Got the old truck cleaned up to sell. It has been a great truck but I'm ready for something else.

 

[BigN8]

Per crankgypsy's they are reverse threaded. My work space is oriented like that in crankgypsy's pics and I am pulling down on the wrench per the write up (reverse thread/clock wise to losses), so I think I'm doing it correctly, just not enough horse power / man power on my end (I'm working out and drinking milk but hey ...). I'm going to continue this on my 2015 preseason mods thread. Thanks for commenting.

If that's a reverse thread then seems to me you should be pushing up according to the pic. If the end of the shaft is threaded and you are pulling down then that is loosening a non reverse threaded nut. I could have this wrong since the pics are far away. I would highly recommend heating the nut as well. Why use more torque if you don't have too?

 

[Ronnie]

I'm pulling down (going clockwise) from here. I don't have any more torque to give today. My back and shoulders are killing me already. I'm off to buy a bigger better vise and some MAPP gas. Time to heat this B up / go medieval on it.

 

[Big Shasta]

i'm pulling down (going clockwise) from here. I don't have any more torque to give today. My back and shoulders are killing me already. I'm off to buy a bigger better vise and some MAPP gas. Time to heat this B up / go medieval on it.
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I'd get a cheater bar before i'd use heat....there are rubber shaft seals just in front of that spot. A good way to visually see you're going the right direction is to see you are turning the impeller the way it would turn in the water. Since the force is usually coming on the shaft, the impeller is pushed tigher so it cant loosen. You're applying the force on the impeller while holding the shaft so its opposite force on the threads....make sense?

 

[Big Shasta]

Meanwhile, on my side of the island.....

 

[ScarabMike]

Sitting at the Jacksonville Landing.

 

[Blazin14]

Picked up boat from storage (ready to MOD it up)