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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 01:42 PM
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Go to your closest home depot or lowes, or similar home improvment center. Ask someone for black steel pipe. They can be found in the water hook up area. make sure you take your lug wrench or ratchet with you so you can make sure your bar will go around the tool. I bought a 48" peice of this for about $8 at homedepot. VERY handy...and no worries about the bar breaking and causing injury...
 

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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 09:29 PM
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Squirt some lube on it. Tighten the two opposite lugs as much as possible. Then wrench the one that is stuck as tight as possible if you can make it any tighter. Then loosen it. I had to do this on a couple chebby work vans that had some seized up lugs. Worked pretty well but I did need a helper pipe for some leverage. Just my 2 cents, Good luck!
 
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Old Feb 16, 2009 | 09:33 PM
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Quit bein a little girl and put some muscle into it What they said about the pb blaster should work, if they are crossthreaded its not gonna be fun breaking em loose.
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 03:43 AM
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Originally Posted by polevaulter95
just bust them loose. everyone is right, replacing studs is easy. I use my floor jack handle as a breaker bar, or a all steel shovel that has a D for a handle.
Best idea yet- don't even have to go to the store for that. I have complete set including breaker bar and ratchet in both metric and US in 3/4in. and I'll bet you're not gonna break those. Use that jack handle on that and it'll be off in a heartbeat.

Torque 'em back at 150 lbs.
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 09:19 AM
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Did you get them off?
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 06:20 PM
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brake them with an autodrill and get some newones to replaced them
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 10:00 PM
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update:
gotta 4 foot pipe. gave pb blaster a shot as well. i held the wrench in place while my buddy positioned himself to stand on the pipe (he weighs more than me) and nothing. the lug nut actually striped a little bit. tried the other stuck lug and same out come. waiting for the weekend to see my brother in law - the mechanic guru and see what he can do. he said worst case...we'll just grind that SOB off and replace the stud and lug nuts. this sucks but what other options do i have????
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 10:09 PM
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an idiot at walmart put one of my lug nuts on cross threaded one time during a tire change on my ranger and i broke my lug wrench trying to get that sucker off. it was a 4 way lug wrench and it snapped that arm completely off. im a big guy (6'3" 260lbs) and when it broke my butt went flying to the ground lol, so be careful.
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ccoll5
an idiot at walmart put one of my lug nuts on cross threaded one time during a tire change on my ranger and i broke my lug wrench trying to get that sucker off. it was a 4 way lug wrench and it snapped that arm completely off. im a big guy (6'3" 260lbs) and when it broke my butt went flying to the ground lol, so be careful.
did you get it off, if so...how?
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 10:27 PM
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use a dremel with that tiny cutting disc and start cutting, then take a chisel and break it off. that's how i'd do it, gonna have to replace the stud, but oh well. just start in 1 place and get a nice deep cut and then crack it a good one with a chisel, it should brake the rest of the way or at least open up some.
 

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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 10:36 PM
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if i do that, i should be able to just cut the lug and keep the stud intact...shouldn't i?
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 10:53 PM
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if i do that, i should be able to just cut the lug and keep the stud intact...shouldn't i?
maybe, if your careful with the chisel, just maybe...but that lug is gonna take a good crack to break.
 
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Old Feb 17, 2009 | 11:26 PM
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i might just give that a try tomorrow
 
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Old Feb 18, 2009 | 02:24 AM
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If you are lazy, go by a local big rig repair shop and have them put a 3/4" impact on the nut. That sucker will snap realllll quick.
 
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Old Feb 18, 2009 | 03:35 AM
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Originally Posted by JC150
i might just give that a try tomorrow
If you've got a 4' pipe and you can't either get it to break loose or break it off, you need to eat more Wheaties!
 
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