Wheel Nuts

PinkBitz · petrol head Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 1594

I got a wheel nut that is stripped, and a wheel spanner nor a socket will work. I cant get it off. the wheel nut looks like an ordinary nut. Does anyone have any ideas???

Pete · backyard mechanic Joined: 05 Oct 2001 Posts: 502

get a socket that nearly fits on, but doesnt then hammer the fukr on!!!! then undo.
works every time but make sure you use a socket that you dont really want that much coz u might not be able to get it off.

Kizza · tinkerer Joined: 06 Oct 2001 Posts: 440

angle grind some sides on, but be carefull not to go to deep and hit the stud.

FrAsErTaG · tinkerer Joined: 04 Oct 2001 Posts: 166

Vice Grips get u out of all sorts of tricky situations

Gene FJ20DET · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 11:47 pm Post subject: solution

well get some duck tap, a hammer, a flat ended screw driver, a piece of cheeze, a golf club and some kind of stuffed amimal. that should work.
gene
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Kizza · tinkerer Joined: 06 Oct 2001 Posts: 440

dont forget the onion

Loz · backyard mechanic Joined: 05 Oct 2001 Posts: 943

You've got it wrong.
Theres NO ONION

HONES · petrol head Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 1786

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we gots people catching on to the NO ONION phase.
haha shit thats funny

Anyways
A good solution to the wheel nut could be to weld a piece of metal (like a 4 pronged wheel nut-takerofferer thing) to the wheel nut. and use that to take it off. (long arms easier to turn if tight)

and it doesnt matter how u weld it because its stripped and ull neva use it again.
easy.

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TimD · tinkerer Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Posts: 456

Easiest way to get the farker off, ive done it before, get the mig, weld a spanner to the nut and your away.

Pete · backyard mechanic Joined: 05 Oct 2001 Posts: 502

well i dunno about the hammer, but a stuffed animal is good in any situation invoving auto maintenance, every good mechanic should have one.

HONES · petrol head Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 1786

or a worker monkey

SikGem · tinkerer Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 373

I don't know... but it's what you do with the stuffed animal that worries me!! hehehe

CuGem · backyard mechanic Joined: 07 Oct 2001 Posts: 599

gene, the nitrous is for the car...

I think *live* animal and duct tape has a better ring to it, or so the urban legend goes...hehehe

sooty · rice boy Joined: 11 Apr 2002 Posts: 46

Two options
1 Weld another wheel nut to the back of the stripped one then undo it.

2 Put a self drilling screw in your tyre and take your car to the tyre service to get the flat fixed. Then abuse them for stuffing your wheel nut.