Click Click Boom!!!!!

No. I like to party.

Full disclosure: right before that, a 5' long breaker bar and a floor jack might have been in the equation...

 

The cordless 1/2 earthquake takes lugs off with ease. $179 can't beat the price for someone that doesn't use it everyday

 

Anti seize just a touch

 

Its just a wheel seal. Put your air tools away and dust off the wheel dolly. Messing with those lugs can double that job time specially on older equipment.

My Dad showed me a driveway trick. Just lay down a plastic mud flap under the tires and cover it with a coat of gear oil. Slide the duals off and on by hand without the wheel dolly.

 

. I have.done that in a parking lot bottle jack no stand. Seemed necessary at the time.

 

I was a mechanic in the Marines, and changed a million wheel seals with a dolly. You're right, it makes the job ten times faster. I could do two LVS in one day, and that's 16 seals total, and full PM on each unit. Man I'm going to try that mudflap idea. I don't know if I can justify a wheel dolly with just one truck. But pulling the tires to change a wheel seal just feels...wrong after all those I changed in the past with a dolly.

 

I use a 12 inch wide by 4 feet long sheet of steel that we have.

Smear a little smelly oil on, the duals slide off easily.

We also do have a dolly. I prefer the dolly method than having to get grease or oil on my clothes from sliding duals

 

Sigh..... just my luck.... off to the suspension shop....



After a day of repairs at the suspension shop, new bushings and a new spring pack, the truck drives much better now.

 

Firing up an angry 1,200 hp Cat 3508 V8 generator.

The regulator isn’t working right which causes a tremendous power surge.

Voltage goes from 575 volts, up past the maximum range on the gauge 700+!