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removing rounded-off lugnut

Old 11-03-2006, 07:51 PM
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anyone know how to do this?
Old 11-03-2006, 08:10 PM
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beat an 18 or 19 on there, or use some of these:



get them at sears (shameless plug)...
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^^^ what he said and have fun
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Find the socket that would be extremely "snug", and with a hammer, tap it over the lug nut.
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^that suggestion worked
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we have a 19 socket at the shop that has removed countless damaged lugnuts/wheel locks, surprising it still gets the job done, it must be an almighty Snap-On...
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those sockets work pretty well....
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Never over tighten the stock wheel locks when using a gorrila lug nut wrentch, which is what i did and broke both rear wheel locks. So far i've only gotten one removed with the socket method, the other one before i thought of the socket method, i chipped away about half of the wall of the wheel lock and now its a pain to remove. I'll probably have to get some of the ones at sears to remove the other wheel lock.

Heres the pic after i tried removing and then chipping away at the wheel lock.



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