wheel nuts

[Toltec]

One idea suggested to me that worked when I tried it is a bit like the mallet one above - if with a slightly higher risk!

Loosen but do not remove the normal bolts,
take the car for a gentle drive around the block,
tighten the normal bolts up - nice and tight,
Bang the sacrificial socket back over the locking bolt and try to remove again.

At a guess, the wheel rocks a bit compressing the conical face on the wheel where the bolt meets it so when you tighten up the other bolts you have hopefully broken any corrosion and loosened the bolt a bit.

At any case it worked on the two wheels I had to remove after the locking nut tool broke.

Mind you, drive with loose wheel bolts at your own risk!

 

[madkayaker]

I had the same problem with my Chrysler, mine was actually worse than yours, but down to my own dumbness.
I could not shift those things for the life of me. I used a 6 foot breaker bar (which broke the socket), I used heat - nothing. I used hammers, air chisels....everything.
I ended up drilling through the stud (as has been mentioned here, dremeling through bits of the nut, drilling bits of the nut, until finally it fell off, stud and all. Took me no less than 15 hours to get one nut off.
Why was mine so hard, and why was it my fault...
well, turns out that some Chrsylers up to 1968 have Left handed threads. Now, I`d half-heard that, so I`d actually gone round to the other front wheel and checked....Right handers.
No - it actually turns out that some Chryslers up to 1968 come with Left handed threads on the passenger side only.
So, there was never a way I`d get that nut off without cutting. Of all the cuts and drills I used, the one that was most effective was when I`d decided to sacrifice the stud. At that point, it was no problem really. And I didn`t need a cobalt drill either, just regular metal drills.

And yes, I replaced the LH studs with RH ones for the future.

 

[zzr1200]

but down to my own dumbness.
I could not shift those things for the life of me. I used a 6 foot breaker bar (which broke the socket), I used heat - nothing. I used hammers, air chisels....everything.

Why was mine so hard, and why was it my fault...
well, turns out that some Chrsylers up to 1968 have Left handed threads.


So, there was never a way I`d get that nut off without cutting.

If you had turned the nut clockwise, surely then it would have come undone...so no need to cut/drill it....???




Sorry, I just couldn't resist... you know ... rub salt into the wound.............
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[shenion]

Yeah, on my Willys Jeep, I had to make sure they wrote "Reverse thread studs on passenger side" on the work order when i had tires put on it.

 

[bawjaws]

Have you tried these from irwin tools. I have used them before on alloys where the locking nut is bolloxed and they did the job. http://www.irwin.com/irwin/consumer/...IrwinCat100511

Kev

they look handy, never thought of those, even though they sell them in my local engineering shop

I had the same problem with my Chrysler, mine was actually worse than yours, but down to my own dumbness.
I could not shift those things for the life of me. I used a 6 foot breaker bar (which broke the socket), I used heat - nothing. I used hammers, air chisels....everything.
I ended up drilling through the stud (as has been mentioned here, dremeling through bits of the nut, drilling bits of the nut, until finally it fell off, stud and all. Took me no less than 15 hours to get one nut off.
Why was mine so hard, and why was it my fault...
well, turns out that some Chrsylers up to 1968 have Left handed threads. Now, I`d half-heard that, so I`d actually gone round to the other front wheel and checked....Right handers.
No - it actually turns out that some Chryslers up to 1968 come with Left handed threads on the passenger side only.
So, there was never a way I`d get that nut off without cutting. Of all the cuts and drills I used, the one that was most effective was when I`d decided to sacrifice the stud. At that point, it was no problem really. And I didn`t need a cobalt drill either, just regular metal drills.

And yes, I replaced the LH studs with RH ones for the future.

my friend ldv van (piece of sh) had the same problem , like you he was using a scaffold pole on the wheel wrench for more leverage, and then bent the wrench roundlike a knot later on he was told by a mechanic in the warehouse next to him that they were reverse threads

 

[bawjaws]

forgot to say, theyre off now, garage couldent do it so i had another go, done the mallet trick, banged a socket on (this time a good one from my set ) and then welded the socket on, came off in the end with some persuasion from mr impact and sir big hammer!