Locking wheel nut removal-Edinburgh area

[dome]

Well the Porsche failed it's MOT this week on a binding front brake-nice one i think and an easy hours work on a Saturday morning. Well it would be if the (alloy) wheel nuts hadn't been buzzed on by some fucking retard.

 

The locking nut is still there and mostly intact but my locking key won't get a grip-tried a Laser tool from halfords but it didn't fit-the Porsche wheels have a deep recess. One of the regular nuts though was rounded so I hammered a smaller socket onto it but it sheared in half leaving me nothing to get a grip on.

 

Anyway, long story short, can anyone recommend anyone in the Edinburgh area to get these off?

 

Cheers

 

Brian

[seacow]

I've got a set of hex sockets would they work? I'd need to check how big the biggest one is.

 

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irwin-Bolt-Grip-Remover-Expansion/dp/B000QW6K8I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394907516&sr=8-1&keywords=bolt+remover+kit

[dome]

That might be worth a try, problem is the recess in the wheel is narrow-that's why I couldn't get the Laser one onto it. Am currently thinking a Holesaw might do the trick

[seacow]

Yeah I did wonder. I can measure them if of any use? You are welcome to try them

[overrun]

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[Junkman]

Can you use these:

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-PC70-Piece-Nut-Splitter/dp/B000LFXN94/ref=pd_sim_diy_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=17AE0TBQAGAAAANQJ6P6

[dome]

Nah not a chance Junkman. It's a deep recess in the wheel-the Laser tool from halfords couldn't get in.

 

Seacow that'd be handy, I'll measure my recess in the morning. Ooer

[Wilko220]

This has all the makings and potential to become the sort of thread from which Autoshite legends are made...

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/9049-puncture-goes-mental-the-latest/

[dome]

This has all the makings and potential to become the sort of thread from which Autoshite legends are made...

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/9049-puncture-goes-mental-the-latest/

Fuck me I hope not.

[barefoot]

I've got a bag full of titanium nuts if

A, they are suddenly required and

B, I can find the fucking things

[Cheggers]

I ended up having to drill one out on my 944 - as you say, there's no space to get anything over the nut. At least replacing the stud's a nice easy job.

 

 

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[gtd2000]

This has all the makings and potential to become the sort of thread from which Autoshite legends are made...

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/9049-puncture-goes-mental-the-latest/

 

Where is our "Hammer a Socket Over It!" Greek friend anyway?

[Wilko220]

Last posted in July 2013, apparently.

I could be completely wrong about this but I vaguely remember him being somehow involved in Greek politics - so maybe he's busy running the country now or something...

[Dead_E23]

I recently removed a McGard locking wheel bolt by using progressively larger drills to separate the head of the bolt from the shaft.  It took a whole afternoon.

 

When doing this, it's very important that the hole is accurately centred or you'll just end up with a mangled bolt that it'll be very difficult to remove.  Fortunately, there was a small hole in the centre of the key that makes it ideally suited for use as a drillling template.  I started by removing all the other locking bolts because I was planning to damage the key and didn't want to risk not being able to undo them.   Next, I drilled a small pilot hole in the offending bolt using the key as a guide, blunting several drill bits to get through the hardened layer.  

 

Once I'd breached the surface hardening, I measured one of the other bolts and drilled a small hole that was just deep enough to go right through the head of the bolt and into the shaft.  I then used progressively bigger drill bits until the head was severed from the shaft, having worked out how big a drill to use by examining one of the wheelnuts I'd removed - think it was12mm or so, and I had to buy that specially (££).   I didn't want to drill too deep and damage the wheel, so as soon I could see I'd gone deep enough I snapped the head off by removing the other wheelbolts and giving the wheel a kick.

 

Earlier in the exercise I'd made a tentative attempt to unscrew the bolt using a large easy-out screw extractor.  I didn't put much pressure on it though - they are very brittle and prone to snapping off in the hole.    Game over if that happens!

[Guest bangerfan101]

Try this at your perril . but if you loosen the rest of the nuts off to finger tightness , then drive the car , the lock nuts will loosen there self .

 

I use to work at a car supermarket and this was the method of lock nut removal favoured by most lazy technitions including myself as missing lock nuts was an almost daily occurance with modern chod coming in from the auctions

[dome]

Victory is mine!

[Dead_E23]

bangerfan101's method works well then?   Wish I'd thought of doing that! 

[dome]

I did try the driving about with the other nuts off thing yesterday-no joy.

 

Bought a Holesaw today-had a choice of 16mm which looked a bit too close to the size of the stud or a larger one(can't remember what size) which left about 1-2mm of nut around the stud.

Attacked each nut for a while with the holesaw then hammered a socket onto what was left and eventually got the two of them off. Stripped and cleaned brakes, freed off pistons, fitted new pads and am now on the couch with a cuppa for the F1. Then I'm off to shit in a bag and set it on fire outside the garage that fitted my tyres and fucked my nuts. 

[Dead_E23]

Must have been quite some holesaw!   Either that or the nut wasn't hardened. 

 

I blunted a brand new, sharp chisel attempting to split the hardened ring off mine so I could get at it with an Irwin nut remover tool.  No joy.

[dome]

Porsches have alloy wheel nuts. Easier to round, easier to drill into tho...