The "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step=20
Procedures for the Compleat Idiot"

http://www.amazon.com/Keep-Volkswagen-Alive-Step-Step/dp/1566913101

suggests a procedure to used for tough nuts: hammer and large=20
screwdriver or cold chisel.  I've used it in an emergency once and it=20
worked perfect.  217 ft-pound torque on fan nut - backed it off,=20
replaced generator, pounded nut back on to exactly 217 ft-pounds, + or -=20
a bit...

Rear axle nuts also were specified to be 217 ft-pounds (is that some=20
exact metric amount?) and I kept two tools under the seat of my van: a=20
pipe wrench and a four foot long breaker bar (galvanised pipe).  Never=20
failed.

Maybe that book worked well for me because I qualified as a 'Compleat=20
Idiot'  ;>


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