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    NUFFIELD WING REPAIRS

    Feb 18, 2022 5 minutes
    WORDS & PICTURES Richard Lofting

    The first job was to loosen the wheel nuts and I know they hadn’t been undone for at least ten years, but I had been giving them a squirt of penetrating oil as I passed by on several occasions recently.

    Breaker

    I tried the nuts with my 4ft breaker bar and socket to no avail. Then I tried the old trick of trying to tighten them before undoing them. That did the trick as each nut, all eight of them, gave a crack as they released. I had borrowed my son’s battery-powered impact gun; although this was turning them, there was so much resistance, I think the battery would have expired before they were all off.

    So, I returned to plan A and used

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