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[Brian Carpenter]

Ok, So I have completely screwed up a lug nut... :bawl:
wasted it good. :gee:
no hope of a wrench or socket ever getting a good grip (looks a bit like popcorn) Do any of you have an old school trick for removing it? Its locking on an aluminum Jeep rim that usually takes a hammer to remove even without nuts.. I have no torches. just those little Mapp Gas things. @ botles of screw-loose didn't do it..

any ideas?

 

[Rev Den]

Go to a tire place, they have a tool. I drilled one out once....very labor intensive, and you need to replace the stud.

Rev

 

[Brian Carpenter]

There is no vehicle to bring there.. I junked a rust-buckett to get the extra

 

[red91]

Ok, So I have completely screwed up a lug nut... :bawl:
wasted it good. :gee:
no hope of a wrench or socket ever getting a good grip (looks a bit like popcorn) Do any of you have an old school trick for removing it? Its locking on an aluminum Jeep rim that usually takes a hammer to remove even without nuts.. I have no torches. just those little Mapp Gas things. @ botles of screw-loose didn't do it..

any ideas?

If you have room try notching the outside with a chisel and a BFH to get it going. I would think after a couple good knocks it would start to turn.

Do you need to save the wheel ??

 

[Brian Carpenter]

The chisel thing is how it got to look like popcorn.. the wheel would get me a few bucks at a garage sale, but I guess the axle is whats important.. I just can't see grinding through the wheel to get a nut off. Hasta

 

[kewlkatdady]

The chisel thing is how it got to look like popcorn.. the wheel would get me a few bucks at a garage sale, but I guess the axle is whats important.. I just can't see grinding through the wheel to get a nut off. Hasta

DYNAMITE!!!!

 

[Brian Carpenter]

you understand my issue then.....................

 

[Rev Den]

Drill it out.


Rev

 

[xjspyder]

If you can weld,then weld a nut to the end of your stripped nut.I did this to remove a set of wheel locks that the key broke.

 

[Brian Carpenter]

Its pretty far into the wheel, but You may be on to something.. I could even weld on a longer breaker-bar sort of thing..

Anyone know how hard it would be to break a lug bolt?

 

[kewlkatdady]

take an extension from your socket set.....

weld the male end of it to the lug......slip you ratchet in the female and and walla!!!!

 

[KY Chris]

I got one off by using a cutting wheel on an angle grinder. I plunged into the center on the nut twice, making an "x" like a big phillips screw then I chiseled through the nut (and the stud) to break them. This of course, destroys the stud as well, but it worked.

 

[Eagle]

I bought a used XJ that was equipped with a set of wheel locks -- and no key. I figured out what size 12-point socket was just slightly too small to fit over the locks, went to Sears and bought a nice new one with clean, sharp edges, and hammered it onto the locks. Then inserted a long breaker bar and the locks came off.

I expected to break the socket at least twice doing 4 locks, but it held up fine and I now have a spare deep 12-point socket in whatever size it was.

 

[PETEY]

had the same prob. I bought a set of easy out sockets, they are made just for rounded nuts and bolts. they have a twist inside of them similar to the twist on an easy out. the size I used was 3/4. they are 3/8 inch drive. however, they are shaped like a nut on the end. I slid a 1 1/16 impact socket over the end of it and used a 1/2 inch drive cheater bar. you might have to pound the eazy out socket over the lug nut. came right out. napa has a set for about $115.00 autozone has a set for $19.00. I tried the air chisel thing and about everything else I could think of including taking to a tire shop. The nut also looked like popcorn. Took about 2 seconds with the right tool

 

[RCP Phx]

I bought a used XJ that was equipped with a set of wheel locks -- and no key. I figured out what size 12-point socket was just slightly too small to fit over the locks, went to Sears and bought a nice new one with clean, sharp edges, and hammered it onto the locks. Then inserted a long breaker bar and the locks came off.

I expected to break the socket at least twice doing 4 locks, but it held up fine and I now have a spare deep 12-point socket in whatever size it was.

Thats always worked for me!

 

[old_man]

Autozone carries a tool for removing this type of problem. It looks like a socket but the inside is a tapered cone shape with left hand threads. You place it over the nut, tap it lightly with a hammer, connect a ratchet and off it comes.

 

[PETEY]

Autozone carries a tool for removing this type of problem. It looks like a socket but the inside is a tapered cone shape with left hand threads. You place it over the nut, tap it lightly with a hammer, connect a ratchet and off it comes.

that's the one. worked for me.