help...stuck lug nuts
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help...stuck lug nuts
i need some expert advise here. i took my truck to a local tire shop to have my tires rotated (these are stock wheels and tires...first time rotating). come to find out they weren't able to remove 2 of the 6 lug nuts on the drivers side rear. they said they tried everything they could being careful not to strip them. they refered me to a nearby repair shop that could take a look at it, but they quoted me 1 hour of labor to get it removed...one lug nut costing 1 hour of labor?!?! i said forget it. i got home and i wanted to see just how tight they where myself. i was standing on the wrench myself (205lbs) and that thing didn't budge at all. i'm tight on cash so i need any advise on how to get these bad boys off. do you think heating it up w/ a small propane torch might help?
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Sounds like somebody cross-threaded those bad-boys! I bet it was some grease-monkey who didn't know that you were supposed to thread the lugnut on by hand first, before tightening them with the impact wrench.
I watched a guy at WalMart put all four wheels back on a car once by putting the lugnuts in the end of the impact wrench and then threading them on with the wrench. When I asked him if he knew why it was wrong to do that, he said he had been doing it that way for years.
You really only have one option...so you might as well go for it. If they break, like others have said, the studs are easy to replace. Maybe you will get lucky and they won't break. Either way, you have to try.
I watched a guy at WalMart put all four wheels back on a car once by putting the lugnuts in the end of the impact wrench and then threading them on with the wrench. When I asked him if he knew why it was wrong to do that, he said he had been doing it that way for years.
You really only have one option...so you might as well go for it. If they break, like others have said, the studs are easy to replace. Maybe you will get lucky and they won't break. Either way, you have to try.
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i need some expert advise here. i took my truck to a local tire shop to have my tires rotated (these are stock wheels and tires...first time rotating). come to find out they weren't able to remove 2 of the 6 lug nuts on the drivers side rear. they said they tried everything they could being careful not to strip them. they refered me to a nearby repair shop that could take a look at it, but they quoted me 1 hour of labor to get it removed...one lug nut costing 1 hour of labor?!?! i said forget it. i got home and i wanted to see just how tight they where myself. i was standing on the wrench myself (205lbs) and that thing didn't budge at all. i'm tight on cash so i need any advise on how to get these bad boys off. do you think heating it up w/ a small propane torch might help?
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My truck came new with 3 or 4 lug nuts tight like this. Like was suggested, I got a 3 ft piece of pipe and brute forced them off. One was so tight I had to stand on the pipe and wound up putting a twist in my lug wrench, but it broke free. All are fine now.
This is why I have posted a couple of times when people complain about how tight the oil filter is from the factory that they check their lug nuts too. You don't want to find this when you're on the side if the road with a flat.
This is why I have posted a couple of times when people complain about how tight the oil filter is from the factory that they check their lug nuts too. You don't want to find this when you're on the side if the road with a flat.
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Do you happen to know someone with a good 1/2" impact? If so I would give that a shot. If not use the breaker bar (no extention) and jump on that SOB until the nut comes loose, stud breaks, breaker bar breaks, or you break. If the nut strips out you'll have to either figure out a way to cut it off, or weld a nut on the end of it which would probably just break the weld since they are on so tight. You can also try hittin the nut with a good punch and a hammer or hitting the end of breaker bar with the hammer to try and get loosened up enough. Good lucK
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are the nuts stripped at all? is there any play when you put the socket on? if so, I'd try and get a pair of vise grips on there. A trick my brother once mentioned was getting the vise grip on as tight as you can by hand, then take another set of vise grips, and turn the *** as much as it'll go after the first one is locked on.
shoot some penetrating oil in there too.
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i wouldn't waste my money on harbor freight junk, just take a good ratchet and a piece of pipe, like 6 footer and tighten it and then try to loosen it. that should crack the lug loose and then let you loosen it. this was worked several times for me, impacts are great, but more times that not you strip the lugs trying to get stubborn lugs off. are these stock lugs or aftermarket?
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