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can anyone shed a bit of advice on how to get my fooking wheel nut off

ok so the story is got a new set of big brakes and calipers waiting to go on but cant get one of my wheel nut's off

basicly what has happened is it has gone from a 10mm to a approx 14mm
took it to a garage today and even they couldn't get it off,what has happened is it has cracked and filled the alloy,
any suggestions
thanks

philc

take it you cant hammer a smaller sized socket on to it?
might be time to get he drill out

TIFF

Get one of the left handed sockets that cut into the wheelnut and turns it out

vroooom ptssssh

put all the other wheel nuts back on tight to take the pressure off it, then smack a socket on that's smaller, 2 sizes smaller so it cuts in? then give it a go


Or be a monkey and drive round the block with that one wheel nut on

jon@work

iTrader: (5)

if you want to go drastic, take the hub off with the wheel, grind the back of the stud off, then smack the remains of the stud, with nut still on, out of the hub from the back, then replace with new stud

dojj

iTrader: (3)

just drill a hole through the nut
using progrissivly bigger drills until you get to the 14mm one needed to get through the stud
you will need a new stud and wheel nut (obviously) afterwards but it's the easiest sollution and you don't need to resort to drastic mesuares like removing hubs etc

start off with a 6mm drill and go through as far as you can (use the new stud you are going to use to replce the old one to figure out how far you need to go) before switching sizes

just make sure you get the hole centered as it's a lot easier to drill through this way

eventually you will drill the threads off of the nut and it'll fall off with good drill bits and a competent monkey opperating, this shouldn't take more than about 15 minutes