How to remote a locking wheel nut/bolt

[504GL]

http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2684546

 

Words fail me!

[Split_Pin]

The words sledgehammer and nut spring to mind.

[Negative Creep]

Words fail me!

 

 

So does your text auto correct

[504GL]

Words fail me!

 

 

So does your text auto correct

Oops!

[michael1703]

twat

 

I would have ground the inside out with a burr in a die grinder and got it nice to get some weld in there and welded a nut or bolt on the thing

[504GL]

twat

 

I would have ground the inside out with a burr in a die grinder and got it nice to get some weld in there and welded a nut or bolt on the thing

 

Yes but you've got a brain.....

[Richard]

I'd have done the same as he did, but I'd be weighing the alloys in anyway.

[ashmicro]

I read that thread a while ago - he got quite a flaming! I'm with Richard on this - those alloys look shit.

[Pete-M]

I was chuckling at this thread last night.

 

Today I took the Heep to get a couple of front tyres fitted. Guess what? Some bottom feeding Fast-Fit turd has crossthreaded and over tightened (and obviously windy-gunned) one of the wheelnuts. Just to add insult to injury, he's then put the chrome shiny nut cover back over the carnage.

 

Bastard.

 

So, first thing I know of this is when I put a 19mm socket over it and the cover comes off to reveal the most murdered wheelnut imaginable. So, have a quick look at it and hammer an 18mm 'sacrificial' socket over the mess (the 19mm had no chance of shifting it). The 18mm just spins on the mess. Try an 11/16 AF, same result. The nut is chewed up big time. Keep trying progressively smaller sockets, 17mm, 16mm but the strength has gone from the nut so it just keeps chewing up. Try one of those 'ez-nuts' or whatever they're called, the ones with the pins in which get locking nuts off, nope.

 

Stage two.

 

Weld a nut over the mess with a stick welder. Nope.

 

Stage three.

 

Go and see the blokes over the road who work on the duck. They break out a load of BFO nut removing gear. They try everything. Localised heat, more windy gun action with various clever sockets and stuff. They're defeated.

 

Stage four.

 

Nip to mad mastertech mate of mine. He hands me a snap on socket set with weird sockets in. Hammer weird socket on, lecky windy gun. Off.

 

Tell ya what, there's no substitute for having the right gear sometimes. The thought of having to repeat this thread was somewhat worrying.

[504GL]

Some might call me a bit silly but your post is the exact reason why I buy tyres online and take said tyres and rims to the local tyre place in the back of the other car and then put them back on the car myself. That way I know some idiot isn't going to take to a locking wheelnut with windy gun and knacker it up and my nuts are torqued up properly. A mate of mine has had the tyres done on his 3 year old Fiesta a couple of times and both times Kwik fit or wherever have knackered his locking wheel nuts up.

 

Bought myself these a while back and they seem pretty good. They've got nylon sleeving on the outside so they don't scratch your wheels to buggery and on the inside as well which helps not to mash the nuts and bolt heads.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-59080-Sq ... 730&sr=8-1

 

Glad you got the nut off without too much of a headache!

[Pete-M]

Some might call me a bit silly but your post is the exact reason why I buy tyres online and take said tyres and rims to the local tyre place in the back of the other car and then put them back on the car myself. That way I know some idiot isn't going to take to a locking wheelnut with windy gun and knacker it up and my nuts are torqued up properly. A mate of mine has had the tyres done on his 3 year old Fiesta a couple of times and both times Kwik fit or wherever have knackered his locking wheel nuts up.

 

Bought myself these a while back and they seem pretty good. They've got nylon sleeving on the outside so they don't scratch your wheels to buggery and on the inside as well which helps not to mash the nuts and bolt heads.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-59080-Sq ... 730&sr=8-1

 

Glad you got the nut off without too much of a headache!

 

It wasn't the locking wheelnut that was threaded.... locking nuts are a piece of piss to get off. .. I'm Scouse!

[504GL]

Some might call me a bit silly but your post is the exact reason why I buy tyres online and take said tyres and rims to the local tyre place in the back of the other car and then put them back on the car myself. That way I know some idiot isn't going to take to a locking wheelnut with windy gun and knacker it up and my nuts are torqued up properly. A mate of mine has had the tyres done on his 3 year old Fiesta a couple of times and both times Kwik fit or wherever have knackered his locking wheel nuts up.

 

Bought myself these a while back and they seem pretty good. They've got nylon sleeving on the outside so they don't scratch your wheels to buggery and on the inside as well which helps not to mash the nuts and bolt heads.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-59080-Sq ... 730&sr=8-1

 

Glad you got the nut off without too much of a headache!

 

It wasn't the locking wheelnut that was threaded.... locking nuts are a piece of piss to get off. .. I'm Scouse!

Well no one is touching any of my nuts, locking or non-locking

[CreepingJesus]

That did just brighten my morning up a bit! What an utterly absurd way to do it.

Having said that, I did pay a garage to remove the locking nuts form the Mondeo, because I didn't get the key with it, and I hadn't much choice at the time. It was one of the few things they didn't fuck up that day, so I'll call it an investment