Lug nut stuck on...need advice [Merged 4-7]

[Drifter00]

I was installing my springs today and I get to the last wheel(driver side rear) and every lug nut comes off except one. I have air tools and I've been working on the lug nut for the better part of an hour. It just wont budge. I sprayed WD-40 on it, let it soak and nothing. I think tmr im gonna take a torch to it and heat it up and see what happens. Any other suggestions on what to do?

 

[NOSLO2PT0]

3ft. breaker bar. Keep the wheel on the ground as well.

 

[doodie]

don't torch it. Use a long pipe and extend the bar (breaker bar) to take off the bolt. Have an extra pair of hands to tug on it.

 

[Drifter00]

So you guys think this should work even better then the air tools im using?

 

[doodie]

yes, it will work over air tools.

 

[Turbo98]

And before you put it back together go to Mitsu and get a new wheel stud and lugnut because that one is probably messed up pretty bad... Unless there just really corroded on or something. Make sure the threads are still ok.

 

[Defiant]

That one's cross-threaded and will probably break when it comes off. A new stud's not a huge deal.

 

[Drifter00]

I got it off with the breaker bar method, took some muscle and a whole lot of swearing but it came off. Surprisingly the stud was fine and did not need to be replaced. Thanks for the helps guys.

 

[lowridin2g]

next time take heat to it. if your good enough with the ecetiline torch u can do it without hurting your rim. might get a lil brown in that one spot but not too too bad. also what are your impact guns rated at? at my shop we have 1,000 ft/lbs impact guns. thayre the shiznit.

 

[bzzzt]

breaker bar = best method ever..... we needed to salvage a bolt off of the stock suspension from my friends s10 once when we we're bagging it. this bolt WOULD NOT budge, we eventually stuck this like 6 foot pipe on the end of the ratchet and were running around in circles like like idiots untill this thing came off. gotta stick with what works!

 

[Cirus_93TSI]

god, i had 2 lug nuts stuck on one of my wheels, the key stripped the pattern off the lock lug nut when i was getting my tires put on(one of those 1000lb impacts just stripped it right down cause of all the rust). the one was rusted to the lug completly, and i had to have them drilled out.
real PITA, and my rim is a little gouged up, hope this works out for you without having to go that far.

 

[crankbender]

Air tools have a higher chance of breaking the stud free from the wheel. When this happens you have to drill them out while they are free spinning . Look at it this way...6' bar x 200lb person bouncing on it = about 2000 ft-lb torque.

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

I had the opposite problem last night.

3 wheel studs snapped off while attempting to get the wheel back on.

 

[crankbender]

use a copper based anti-sieze. Just make sure you check your lug torque every now and then.

The stock style of lug nut used on the DSM is horrible at breaking studs (ask any reputable tire shop). The real cure is to try and find another style lug nut....but i like how they look and use the antisieze.

Use the metal based because of the heat seen from the rotors.

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

I have different lugs from when I got my new rims. My lug studs were just rusted to crap.

 

[Enigma_Man]

Just be careful with those cheater pipes I've had wrenches twist apart from the torque before, snaps the head right off, and they go pinging around the garage.

-Jesse

 

[Crazy E]

I went to check out my rear brakes the other day (discussed in another thread...) and my rear lugs are freakin welded to the car practically!!

Im assuming some moron at a shop over-tourqed them before I owned the car, so how do I get them off?? I heard tapping them with a hammer works

I like pulled a muscle in my arm trying to get the things unstuck!:thumbdown

Thanks

 

[c5chris]

Hope this helps.

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115393

 

[Defiant]

Longer cheater bar. Be aware that you may twist off a stud or two.

An interesting aside: the owner's manual says to _not_ use anti-seize on the lugs, as it can lead to them overtightening themselves as you drive.

 

[fivestardsm]

I would suggest, since there not off the car, to take it to a local shop and ask if they can break them loose with an impact. If they do start breaking, make sure you dont break more than 2 because then they would have to charge you to fix them just because youd be stuck there! and you could drive back home on 3 safely, and break the rest on your own.

Steve.

 

[Peatry85]

PB Blaster, nuff said

 

[ddavisaf]

Alright, I'll give you a topic.

You're removing the lug nuts from the rim. You get 4 of them off then disaster strikes. The fifth lug doesn't want to come off the stud very easily. In fact, it likes the stud soo much it causes it to break free of the hub and free spin. So now you have a tire on the car, with a stud that is free spinning in the hub and a lug nut still attached to it. Not only is it attached though, it's rusted on.

Alright, discuss. How would you go about removing this redheaded step child of a lug? Mind you, I'd like to save the air chisle as a last resort.

 

[awdtalontsi1992]

Taking into account the wheels you have, could heating it be an option?

 

[DSMunknown]

Do you care what happens to the lug nut?





EDIT: I think (at the very least) you're going to have to call around for some extra hands, but it depends on how you go about the problem. Perhaps a couple cans of PB Blaster would need to be called in from the bench, as well as a large vice grip.


Oh, and all that pent-up hostility you have been repressing from civil life? Hello Mr. Opportunity.

 

[Raph]

well,you have to remove the stud anyways..the threading is screwed.. so just split that mofo openn!

buy new stud set, remove hub(is it a fwd?then its easy ) whack out old studs(might as well swap em all out... )