Comments on: How do I remove these lug nuts?

By: earlyearl389

earlyearl389 — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:22:00 +0000

you have no money so how are you even going to put gas in it

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:30:23 +0000

Get a regular lug wrench and then from Home Depot get a 6 foot piece of iron pipe that ill fit over the lug wrench handle. Then put the lug wrench on the nut and slip the pipe over the lug wrench handle and push. With that much leverage something will move. BTW, look at the threads to see which way to push. There is an odd change it has left hand threads.

By: bandit_60

bandit_60 — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:30:24 +0000

take a 6 point socket and a breaker bar. they will either come off or break.

By: dallenmarket

dallenmarket — Sat, 01 May 2010 18:53:56 +0000

There are ways to improve the power of the lug wrench. A piece of pipe (the longer the better within reason) that fits over one arm of the star wrench and sticks out a few feet gives much better leverage. We used a 6 foot piece of heavy wall pipe (called a cheater bar) over a star wrench to change our own 18 wheeler tires when I was in Iraq. I could break loose lug nuts that in the states would be removed with a large air powered impact wrench by standing on and bouncing my 200 lb body up and down on the end of the pipe. (You didn’t wait around on the highways in Iraq for a road service truck. It was change the tire and get out of there quickly.) Be advised that the extra force might break off the rusted lugs completely.

I’d suggest trying to heat them with a propane or cutting torch, but I’ve seen too many vehicles end up on fire. Heating the rusted nuts does help destroy the rust underneath and makes the metal expand making them easier to remove. If you know someone who KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE A TORCH AND HAS DONE THIS BEFORE you might try it, but not unless ALL of the words in caps apply!!

The other option: Use a small cutting tool or grinder (Dremel Moto-Tool or the like. About $40-50 plus a small container of cutting disks for about $5, although if you can borrow one, you only need the cutting disks.) and carefully cut through each lug nut from the side. Make sure to only cut through the nut and not damage the threads on the lug itself. Usually if you get the nut cut almost through on 2 sides, it can be split with a few taps from a hammer and chisel along the cut lines. Then some WD-40 on the threads where the nut was covering them and some new nuts and you can put the wheels back on after being repaired.

By: ed g

ed g — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:03:19 +0000

Perhaps a telephone pole , and the Pittsburgh Steelers .

By: TSNE

TSNE — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:05:38 +0000

Buy a can of carburetor cleaner $5
spray bolts let it sit for a little bit
don’t get any on you stuff burns
get tire iron and attempt removal
if that doesn’t work try extending the tire iron putting pipe on the end
gives you more leverage

if that doesn’t work
you will probably have to torch the bolts and pull it off that way
don’t know how much that would cost or if you have the stuff to do it
you could always get some fix a flat and get it towed somewhere

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:32:33 +0000

A length of pipe to provide leverage. If, as is fairly likely to happen, the bolts are that rust that they end up shearing you may need to drill them down the middle and use a screw extractor/easy-out.

By: allen o

allen o — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:53:04 +0000

well if its not a ford, put your lug wrench on there and do that ol saying,”lefty loosy-righty tighty” stand on it if you have to, cause most lugnuts are torqued to about 180 foot pounds, jump if you have to..if its a ford with the giant lugnuts, then there left handed threads and have to be turned just oppiset of the right way

By: rustyham99

rustyham99 — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:02:31 +0000

try pb blaster sold at parts store it is a good penetrating oil . then use a good 4 way wrench (try to put a jack stand up to support one end of wrench then use cheater pipe ) be careful & good luck. if all else fails with a good 4 way & long cheater pipe you should be able to snap nut& stud then pull drum & replace studs.

By: LeAnne

LeAnne — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:26:10 +0000

Use a breaker bar and a long pipe - the lugs will either come off or break off, in which case you’ll need to replace the studs and lug nuts (no big deal.)