urgent wheel removal

[flyingbanana]

i need to get some wheels off......but ive misplaced the locking wheel key typical find all the others but not the one i need...........ive tried all the normal tricks....hammering on socket etc...but still no luck.....any one know of a socket or tool to get them off

[boXXer]

im in exactly the same position on my series 1. I need to get the wheel off as the tyres bald.

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

hammer and punch it takes ages but works

[PAUL MANN]

WHAT STYLE OF LOCKING NUT ARE THEY

[fordtina3]

if the worse comes to the worse, you are gonna have to drill them out. but you can get a stud extractor and the wind into the stud left-hand thread so as they tighten up, they undo the stud. most auto factor shops do them. if its a nut, then hammer and cold chisel. you could also drill them out but have a new stud on standby......

[flyingbanana]

WHAT STYLE OF LOCKING NUT ARE THEY

 

8 pin..on the outer edge...i found this but no price

 

http://www.lockingwheelnutremover.com/p ... range.html

 

also these but not much detail

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LOCKING-WHEEL-NUT ... dZViewItem

[Tom]

post a pic of them mate.

 

you need a 12 point socket a little bit smaller, pref a imperial or whitworth and smack it on. Put your breaker bar on it and keep hitting it as you turn it off. this has always work for me

[Mart]

dunno if they still make em and what the supply like is to local motor factors but try em anyway, ask for a gaitor grip socket.

 

its a socket that has spring loaded pins as yo push it onto said object all the pins in contact push up and others stay down aound the outer edge always worked for me in the past, wheel thiefs favourite tool although their not as good on the locking wheel nuts with 3 pins

P.S i know this from personal experience of removing my own wheels and nobody elses

[Tom]

those 3 pin lockers are soft as shite (had them on my old fezza) 18mm socket worked every time

[flyingbanana]

post a pic of them mate.

 

you need a 12 point socket a little bit smaller, pref a imperial or whitworth and smack it on. Put your breaker bar on it and keep hitting it as you turn it off. this has always work for me

 

yep will do when i can....whats a 12 point socket?

 

dunno if they still make em and what the supply like is to local motor factors but try em anyway, ask for a gaitor grip socket.

 

its a socket that has spring loaded pins as yo push it onto said object all the pins in contact push up and others stay down aound the outer edge always worked for me in the past, wheel thiefs favourite tool although their not as good on the locking wheel nuts with 3 pins

P.S i know this from personal experience of removing my own wheels and nobody elses

 

 

tried that already...not once has that tool been useful for me

[Mart]

12 point socket instead of being a hexagon shape ie 6 corner points has 12 corner points so means you have more points of contact

[Tom]

bi - hexagonal instead of hexagonal mate

[Mart]

sounds more technical toms way lol

[lee_capri]

bash a socketon it that just a tag undersized or lump hammer and small coal chisseal some times only takes a good wack or can tack ages done no end this way

[Mart]

just thought of another way, if you've got an arc welder (your an osfer so you should have ) get a standard nut and tack it onto your locking wheel nut then just use correct size socket for the standard nut, done this one myself efore now

[jamesmk1]

post a pic of them mate.

 

you need a 12 point socket a little bit smaller, pref a imperial or whitworth and smack it on. Put your breaker bar on it and keep hitting it as you turn it off. this has always work for me

 

i will second that.

 

and with the 3 pin's ones just get a second 3 pin style key take one pin out and it will fit.

 

i have to take about 5 set's of lock's of a day