Improvements Of Wheel Nuts Remover

Nurfarahin , Sulaiman (2013) Improvements Of Wheel Nuts Remover. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka. (Submitted)

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Abstract

During the globalization era on the 21st century, transportation has become one of the most important needs in human’s life. Almost every family has got at least one car to travel from one place to another. With the increased technology and the living standard, number of cars on the road each day has also been increased. This means that the needs and facilities for the repairing of the vehicles are also important. Car maintenance is of the major factor in keeping the life span of the car. Therefore, car manufacturers will equip the wheel nuts removing tools and a car jack for tire replacement in emergency case. The wheel nuts remover is design to help the users during the removal or loosen of the wheel nuts before tire replacement activity. The existing wheel nuts remover has been designed to remove all the four nuts together at a time. But, it is too heavy and the weight has reached up to 9.5 kg which is not convenience for the users to remove to wheel nuts. Therefore, a research has been done on the improvements of the existing wheel nuts remover in terms of the design, material used and also the weight of the wheel nuts remover. During the studies, 100 PCD wheel nuts size has been identified to be the most popular types of wheel nuts used by Malaysian’s car. In this research, the wheel nuts remover has been designed by using the commercial CAD software with the 100 PCD wheel nuts size as reference. Life cycle analysis has also been done in this research to quantitatively assess the environmental impact of a product throughout its entire lifecycle.

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