Hi,
I'm guessing most of us have seen "Ice Cold in Alex", where an army ambulance is "hand-cranked up the side of a sand dune? No doubt many of us have done something similar? I have ... my first Landy, up a steep drive, out of the garage where it had been hiding for eleven years. Energetic, but not difficult.
Right ... similar problem ... but this time across a flat,but rough, garden. No engine. No front differential. Assume a reluctance to roll. I can't be the only bloke who has met, or will meet, this problem.
How do I do it, apart from, getting a gang of blokes in, and asking them to grunt?
602
The best I can think of is to cobble up a dummy axle to prop-shaft drive flange with a large nut welded in the centre.
Bolt dummy flange to differential flange, lie underneath, apply socket to nut, turn nut with torque wrench. (Torque wrenches are a couple of feet long, and have a two way ratchet.
Probably less mucky would be to buy half a dozen 600mm socket extension bars, and pass them under the chassis, and crank from the front of the truck. Is there a line of sight? And yes, I do know about Hookes Law.
Would applying a socket to a wheel nut and using a long tommy bar, work? Or would it destroy the wheel stud and/or be beyond my strength?
Probably easier to buy a boat winch, and "ground anchor". ... Dig a hole, fill with POST FIX (ready mix) and add water. Hammer in a steel stake before it dries.
Any other ideas or suggestions?
602