Fucking thermodynamics
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I have a problem /o/.
I don't understand how it happened but I need to get it off.
I was just was thinking of getting some sort of clamp and using that, but it didn't work. Maybe I'll heat it with a torch next time.
If push comes to shove I'll just cut it off. So Anyone know how to replace a wheel bolt?
>>14082600
Breaker Bar?
As you can see the lug has expanded.
My theory is because of rusting causing expansion.
>>14082604
The thread around the nut is gone because of expansion.
>>14082607
That's just a covering. Get some good pliers and tear it off.
>>14082607
Dremel with a tiny cutting wheel or lots of heat...
cut it off. if you manage to ruin the threads underneath just change the stud.
i would just get channel locks or vice grips and twist it off until it falls apart and then clean the threads.
idk why ur asking for advice for something this obvious.
>>14082600
Replacing a wheel bolt isn't that bad. I had to do it this week after one of the studs snapped off.
>Remove wheel
>Remove caliper and rotor
>Knock out old stud with hammer
>Slide new stud in, with a bit of grease
>Put a large nut (big enough to not be threaded on at all) onto the new stud to use as a spacer
>Put lugnut on and tighten it with a breaker bar, pulling the stud through,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX9te2iFH3E
The hardest part was removing the rotor, because the screws holding it on are bullshit (and useless).
>>14082600
YOu guys are stupids. Just hammer a socket into it and attach the breaker bar on the socket.
Are you using no-name 12 point short sockets?
Get a real 6 point deep bitch, breaker bar, and a 12 foot pipe and bust that shit off like a man
>>14082600
Who even cares about those ? I'm running a 3 lug setup on my shitbox and the car is just fine.
>>14082688
MADMAN
YOU'RE A MADMAN
>>14082688
That entire picture frightens me
I am sweating
>>14082600
Uh.. That's just the "chrome" covering
Tear it off and use a smaller socket on the actual nut.
Have you tried turbo sockets?
>>14082659
Pic related
Chrome cover over top of the actual steel nut. Thats why they do that. Take a punch and a hammer and chisel its back enough to get a regular socket over it. Don't use a nut extractor or anything on it. You'll fuck the nut and probably wont get the casing off.
If all else fails, OP, get one of these.
>>14082600
What you think is happening is not really happening.
As many other people in the thread have posted, what's fucked up is not the stud or the nut itself. It's a thin chrome cap put over the actual lugnut.
OEM "chrome lugnuts" are actually usually a 2-piece lugnut, with a thin chrome cap over a plain nickel nut. Impact wrenches and worn-out impact sockets, like those used at tire shops, really do a number on the flimsy chrome covers, leading to them getting cracked and bent out of shape like in your >>14082607 image, making it next to impossible to get a wrench on them.
I promise you, the lug stud has not expanded.
Grab a pair of channel locks, grab the outside of the nut, wiggle and pull. (straight out, don't try to unscrew). After you work at it a little while, the chrome cap should come off (2nd from the left in this image), leaving you with a bare nut that you can fit a proper lug wrench on (far left in this image). Throw the cap away.
Thanks for all the help.
Though nut is so rusted, the thread immediately got fucked.
I'll just cut it off.
Tommorow
>>14083200
Use a breaker bar, it will come off one way or another.
>>14083216
And use a real breaker bar. A nice long 1/2" or bigger drive one.
>>14083200
soak it in PBBlaster.
invest in a die for the studs and clean up the threads. NAPA has them cheap.
apply anti seize to studs, torque to wet.
>>14083200
Do what I did, get a larger size nut to fit over the fucked one, weld it on there and fucking crank it off
>>14083429
The threads on that are gonna be beyond saving,
just tap the stud out the back and press a new one in with a bunch of washers and a lug nut assuming the back of the hub is accessible.
What the fuck are ya doing?
Stand/jump on the tyre iron.
But if the threads on the nut are fucked already get a smaller socket than you need and hammer the cunt onto the bolt and then get that shit off with a breaker bar.
>>14083755
Not a recommended install method.
Turns out that too often the stud either yields before it seats and rendering it useless or it doesn't get properly seated and then it works around and allows the nut to loosen in service. Only way to be positive they're in there completely is to press them in from behind with a proper press.
Loosen the other 3 lug nuts to 1/3 torque
Drive, make a hard turn
Take out lug nut by hand
You're welcome
Acetylene torch that fucker
new fresh stud and lug
drilling takes too long, and judging by how crispy that lug looks it probably isn't going to come off even with ye olde breaker bar or it will crumble under the outer cap when you do put enough torque on it
ALso
>>14082659
You're supposed to use an impact driver for those screws. If you use the proper tool, it's not difficult at all.
