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A change in temperature and impact is the best way! Get your hands on an impact gun and a socket to fit, hammer it for a while then big breaker bar, hammer it, breaker bar, it will come loose. Might struggle to jack it high enough to get the breaker bar on it, if a breaker bar isn't long enough, a hollow tube (scaffold pole) helps extend it/add mega leverage.
steffan wrote: There are standard thread some people just do them up real tight I use a harf inch ratchet with a extension bar on it and if that fails I weld a nut on it and use an impact wrench then hay presto an bobs your uncle
this might sound stupid but when you say use a half inch ratchet do I just use the bit the sockets go on?
steffan wrote: There are standard thread some people just do them up real tight I use a harf inch ratchet with a extension bar on it and if that fails I weld a nut on it and use an impact wrench then hay presto an bobs your uncle
this might sound stupid but when you say use a half inch ratchet do I just use the bit the sockets go on?
Yes exactly that it sometimes helps if you get someone to hold it in place then give it a good yank (pull)
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