Tight nuts
I took my Dodge 3500 to the local Dodge dealer for a tire rotation today. They said that they couldn't get the lug nuts loose on the rear duallies. They tried soaking them with penetrating oil but the...
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pigbike wrote:
Well my nuts are back to normal. I went out this morning and broke everyone of them loose with my 1/2 drive 16" breaker bar. No extra pipe needed.
Why the Dodge dealership couldn't do it is beyond me. I'm 63 and didn't even break a sweat doing it by hand. Now I did spray then with penetrating oil several times since going to the dealer but they are not rusted at all. Once I broke them loose I could remove them the rest of the way by hand.
I bet the tech at the dealership is one of these guys who doing tires is below his perceived worth, so he just made up an excuse not to do it.
I will be calling the dealership on Monday.
Good news! It does appear the penetrating oil helped some, perhaps just dryness and micro-corrosion. God forbid you had a flat tire meanwhile.
Wes
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