Hmm, so what do I do here then?

I've lost my locking wheel nut key, how do I remove the nuts without the need for a key?

 

find an old socket to sacrifice and hammer it on to the locking nut??

 

Bri.

 

Those gaitor grip sockets work well too if there not on too tight. The universal ones with all the prongs on.

 

just had to do this on my brothers escos yesterday.

the hole in the wheel for the nut wasn't very big, so counldn't get an impact socket over it (black sockets). If you have space, then this is always the easiest.

If you have access to a welder, you can weld another nut, or bolt onto the end of the locking nut, and undo it that way.

Or what we did yesteday, was use a chisel, to break some of it off, then chase it around until it undoes. This made a bit of a mess of the wheel on that hole tho.

 

Halfrauds do a tool that has a reverse thread in so when you wind the tool on it gose up so far and then will turn the nut. It looks a bit like a socket but it does make you wonder what the point in locking wheel nuts is when this tool is readily availble and just attaches too a ratchet

 

Thanks everyone.

What I'm worried about is messing up the wheel, the front two wheels are borrowed, which ISN'T good.

Fucking typical!

Dave do you have a photo of this socket mate? and does it work quite well?

 

Ask a pikey?

 

didn't know about that, have to have a look. cheers.

the other method I was going to try was drilling a hole in the centre of the nut, and using a stud extractor, but the drill barely even made a dent in the nut.

 

Told you how to do this ages ago, stop picking your ass and get on on with it

 

stud extracters go on the outside! unless you mean an eazi-out, but that wouldnt work.

i would try the reverse sockets if you can get it on, and if not i would go to a garage and get a head welded on

 

I haven't got one of these sockets myself, I've seen them on the selves when I've been looking for something else. Wish I knew about them a few years back when I brought my cossie as locking tool broke (the pins inside broke) after I'd removed three of them ended up drilling it off and had to replace the stud.

 

Hammer a socket over it, no problems

 

got them at work and not worked once your best bet is bang an old socket over the locking nut

 

st200-tl1000r ah really? thats good to know most of these things that sound too good to be true usually are!
what happens then, they just munch the locker and dont undo it or ????

 

half the time the is to big/small and the other half they just wont grip.

I have been told that the AA tave a tool abit like a Impact Screwdriver

with blades that cut into the top of locking nut.

was going to get one but its over Ł200+vat

 

cheers fella keep meaning to pick one up for emergencies but wont bother

good thing the best are so expensive really, else every scrote would go and buy em

 

Hammer a socket over it its the best way. never had a problem doing it this way.

 

I did that on the Sapph, we just went down to the local scrapper as they have shed
loads, We found one that would fit well enuff to get them off.

I dont bother with them now, unless i go to a car show or the car is laid up.

Al...