Removal of locking wheel nut!

[Stu_B]

Help I've snapped the pins off my locking wheel nut tool!! How can I remove them? the centre of the nut is hollow & threaded - can I screw in a bolt with a couple of nuts locked on & undo it that way (like how you would retighten a loose stud?)

[Twinkle]

hammer a tight socket over it m8

[Stu_B]

The problem is it's one of those shitty round ones!! A bit like this but four pins & the centre is hollow with a 16mm thread

 

http://www.neobrothers.co.uk/images/loc ... 20nuts.jpg

[Twinkle]

it works on those m8 mine were the same, for some reason had 3 different sets on the same car but only 2 keys!! lol use one of the sockets with lots of the little bits rather than the flat sided ones

[Tom]

mate you're lucky. the metal on those is soft as shit smack a bi hexagonal socket on it, 18mm or an imperial one. make sure it goes on tight, put a knuckle bar on it and start putting pressure on it but at the same time keep hitting the back of the knuckle bar to keep the socket on tight and help with removal

[Stu_B]

Cheers, I'll go round my dads & nick one of his haggard ones, not using my shiny chromes! haha

[Copey]

use one of the sockets with lots of the little bits

 

very technical twink

[Twinkle]

use one of the sockets with lots of the little bits

 

very technical twink

 

 

couldnt think of the posh name!! i only know the posh names of human body parts

[Copey]

use one of the sockets with lots of the little bits

 

very technical twink

 

 

couldnt think of the posh name!! i only know the posh names of human body parts

 

hahaha

[antz]

worked for me when i over tightenedn mine

[james p]

it how we do the scrap cars

[jayson2.3pinto]

if that dont work get the welder out and weld a bar to the wheel nut

[Cookie]

They come off a piece of piss mate, I find with them, if the first socket rounds it off it's usually cos they got a soft sh*tty casing around them, bang the next size down (usually changing to imperial/af/ww sometimes helps) and bang it on like your demented and it will come off no probs, then spend 1/2 hour trying to remove said bolt from socket in vice

 

And if all that fails, the welded bar or big nut trick will never fail