My damn tire shop tightened my lugs to like 120 ft/lbs. So I'v been taking em off to put my Koblenz's back on and one of the lugs stripped. The lug head itself is stripped bad. Is there anything I can do to get this off? Is there a tool I can buy to get it off. These stock lugs are a POS. This isnt the first time I have had them strip on me.
Stock Lug Nut Stripped...Help!
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BigBoiLS
Active LVC Member
buy the new ones. i bought the new ones and havent had a problem. i have taken my wheels of numerous times.
jumpman6235
Well-Known LVC Member
Hammer on the socket.... or go to ur local tire shop and they do this kinda stuff all the time
BigBoiLS
Active LVC Member
yeh discount tire will bust it off. you can buy the new lug nuts from lincoln or the sebring lug nuts work too. do a search to find the part #. plus the sebring lugs are cheaper. but yeh lincoln redesigned the ls lug nut.
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I used an ice pick to punch a hole through the outside cap peeled back the outside to expose the nut and then took it off with ease. It's a bitch and I had to do it to 15 of my lugs which pissed me off. Look at my previous posts, get the new lugs from jnztuning.com $1.90 each!!!!!
I used an ice pick to punch a hole through the outside cap peeled back the outside to expose the nut and then took it off with ease. It's a bitch and I had to do it to 15 of my lugs which pissed me off. Look at my previous posts, get the new lugs from jnztuning.com $1.90 each!!!!!
The stock lug nuts on my LS are 19mm.beaups said:right I think it's normally a 3/4. hammer on a metric (19MM IIRC but maybe not) and you'll get it off
It sounds like the lug itself is stripped, so it doesn't matter what you get on the lug nut--it'll just spin in place. Take it back to the shop that did the work and make them get it off; they screwed it up, so they need to fix it.
FWIW, the LS's lug nuts should be torqued to 100 ft-lbs. One LLSOC member discovered that a tire shop had "torqued" his to over 250 ft-lbs.
Good thing he didn't have to change those on the side of the road.
Those lug nuts are the only thing I hate about my LS. I got new tires put on the stock 16" wheels and they had to replace 8 of the lug nuts. Some guy from autozone drove 3hours away to get them on a Saturday...and they wanted like $4-8/each lug nut. I was told you can use these sockets (in picture below) to strip the shell off the nut, then hammer a 3/4 or something sock on the nut and crank'er loose.Heres a link to the sockets I'm talking about http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/...ageView?storeId=6970&langId=-1&rfno=200263374 . good luck man.
^ Thats exactly what I used. I had to go to Sears this morning tho to get a 1/2" reducer to 3/8" cuz my torque wrench is 1/2" drive and the sockets were 3/8".
After that it came right off. Yea I replaced all my lugs nuts friday. $5 each. Yea I know outrageous. I got my new wheels back on now. So what should I torque the lugs to? I have them at 80# now.
After that it came right off. Yea I replaced all my lugs nuts friday. $5 each. Yea I know outrageous. I got my new wheels back on now. So what should I torque the lugs to? I have them at 80# now.