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Title: removing a wheel nut..
Post by: DazVR6 on 02 May 2008, 11:37: Need to remove a wheel nut to change my alloys, but one won't come out, think its rounded, any ideas on removal..? was gonna take it to a garage and get em to air gun it off.
Title: Re: removing a wheel nut..
Post by: monkeyalan on 02 May 2008, 12:49: hammer a toughened splined socket on it.
thats how i got my old locking nuts off when i lost the adapter.
Title: Re: removing a wheel nut..
Post by: clipperjay on 02 May 2008, 12:53: Good old hammer, smaller socket and a blow torch get medievil on it! :wink:
Title: Re: removing a wheel nut..
Post by: Ashley on 02 May 2008, 14:09: Quote from: monkeyalan on 02 May 2008, 12:49
hammer a toughened splined socket on it.
thats how i got my old locking nuts off when i lost the adapter.

you need to make sure it's tough though.. i went through about 3 trying to do this on my locking nuts when the guy i bought it off didnt have the key anymore.

in the end i spent Ã‚£20 on a kit to get it off which had about 4 different sockets with a backwards thread made out of super duper metal. Hammer it on, twist it anti clockwise and it shreds the bugger orf!
Title: Re: removing a wheel nut..
Post by: DazVR6 on 02 May 2008, 19:55: Managed to get it off with a six sided socket, hammer and a bar....thats after another tyre place tryed and failed with an air gun and some five sided sockets. :smiley: