Rounded off wheel nuts

Austin Shackles wrote:

> On or around 09 Dec 2004 18:47:55 GMT, [email protected]nujon (AN6530)
> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>>Subject: Re: Rounded off wheel nuts
>>>From: "Paul S. Brown" [email protected]
>>>Date: 09/12/2004 17:39 GMT
>>
>>>Halfords sell nut splitters. Probably the easiest course.
>>>
>>>They're basically a steel eye with a wedge driven into the nut by a
>>>threaded shaft.
>>>
>>>Try it. I think it will work.
>>
>>Not if the nut sits in a recess within the wheel.
>
> which most nuts on alloys do; hence the difficulty removing the buggers.
> Welding another nut to the outer end is still the best bet, I reckon.

Ah, I'd missed the bit about alloys

My rangie had NoStyle steels on it.

P.
--
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[email protected] "Paul S. Brown" wrote:

> Dom J wrote:
>
> > Not sure if I've asked this before but.......
> >
> > Have got a slow puncture front drivers side on the RRC (with alloy
> > wheels). The previous owner appears to have tried to remove the wheel nuts
> > using a
> > pair of mole grips. One nut is totally rounded off. Any hints or tips on
> > how to get this out?. Initial thoughts are to weld another nut on using
> > TIG and use a socket on that.
> >
> > Dom J
>
> Halfords sell nut splitters. Probably the easiest course.
>
> They're basically a steel eye with a wedge driven into the nut by a threaded
> shaft.
>
> Try it. I think it will work.

The problem is that a nut-splitter big enough to handle a typical wheel
nut is big ans awkward, and it may not be practical.

But where they can be used, they're pretty good.

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David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

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You can see from the other responses that none of these blokes have ever had
to really do it.

I had this problem on an old Hillman. I even tried heating the nuts with
oxy-acetylene. No luck.

In the end and after rounding off the nut until it was almost circular, I
found the best solution was to use a Metrinch socket with a rattle gun (air
impact wrench). Worked a treat.

Ron Beckett
Emu Plains, Australia

1995 P38A Range Rover HSE 4.6 Litre V8


"Dom J" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Not sure if I've asked this before but.......
>
> Have got a slow puncture front drivers side on the RRC (with alloy wheels).
> The previous owner appears to have tried to remove the wheel nuts using a
> pair of mole grips. One nut is totally rounded off. Any hints or tips on
> how to get this out?. Initial thoughts are to weld another nut on using TIG
> and use a socket on that.
>
> Dom J
>
>
>