Stripped lug nut removal

[Lownslowlsc]

Yeah i hate to make a thread on this but I'm to lazy and tired at the moment to go outside in 0 degree weather to check. I'm taking off all my 19's and repainting the faces and fixing little imperfections ..

Ends up one of my l/n's is stripped. I read that you can get the next smaller socket then the one that is supposed to fit and hammer it on...My question is what size are the factory lugs so i can pound on the next smaller size? Any other suggestions would be appreciated. It's on the rear if that at all matters on other techniques to use..

 

[Right on the Mark]

Yes I have done this before. Some times if there std a certain metric will hammer on and sometime if metric a certain std will work. Its trail and error.

 

[slowmkviii]

Get a stripped nut remove set from craftsman

 

[Lownslowlsc]

Get a stripped nut remove set from craftsman

no monies...I'm not driving it and its not a emergency so im in no rush..Just wanna get it lookin good like all the rest of em'.

 

[slowmkviii]

Stock is 19 mm

 

[topher5150]

i saw a video, might have been on here, where a guy rounded his lug nuts so he grabbed a sawz all and cut his rim off

 

[Lownslowlsc]

Stock is 19 mm

thank you very much dear sir..

 

[Right on the Mark]

LOL Last resort would be to weld bolt or nut on then remove.

 

[Lownslowlsc]

i saw a video, might have been on here, where a guy rounded his lug nuts so he grabbed a sawz all and cut his rim off

yikes

 

[chicken]

My question is what size are the factory lugs so i can pound on the next smaller size?

thats why you stripped it lol

Yes I have done this before. Some times if there std a certain metric will hammer on and sometime if metric a certain std will work. Its trail and error.

+2 ive even gone down to a 17 before on a focus (they have lugnut problems)

i saw a video, might have been on here, where a guy rounded his lug nuts so he grabbed a sawz all and cut his rim off

it was a link on here to a VW forum

 

[Lownslowlsc]

thats why you stripped it lol

+2 ive even gone down to a 17 before on a focus (they have lugnut problems)


it was a link on here to a VW forum

haha, it was late and i couldn't remember what size it was and didn't feel like searching..And only 1 out of 20 was stripped so i wasn't being retarded with the size...

Anywho, i used a 18 and it came off with ease. I have a new set w/locks i've had for years so those will be going on when i put on the 19's back on . .Thanks guys...

 

[NoLimit95]

I used a 4-way once and went down to the next smaller size. I beat it on with a hammer and ruined the opposite end of the 4-way but I got the lug off. I also used this method for 4 locking lugs that I didn't have a key for. Removed all 4 of them with ease.

 

[Lownslowlsc]

I used a 4-way once and went down to the next smaller size. I beat it on with a hammer and ruined the opposite end of the 4-way but I got the lug off. I also used this method for 4 locking lugs that I didn't have a key for. Removed all 4 of them with ease.

I found this out while searching too. Good stuff to know.

 

[PHIL ANDERSON]

i always use an impact socket real hard to break never fails

 

[Sapperfire]

i always use an impact socket real hard to break never fails

stripped head, not threads

 

[chicken]

also used this method for 4 locking lugs that I didn't have a key for. Removed all 4 of them with ease.

ive always done this method for locking lugs 22mm worked everytime till i split the fukker in half

i always use an impact socket real hard to break never fails

see above, black impact socket granted this was after a couple 100 locks removed

stripped head, not threads

and the thread is about a stripped head

 

[Sapperfire]

That's what i said!

Read my quote ..And you even quoted him and didn't catch it...his method is for breaking a stud with stripped threads, not grabbing a stripped nut head.

 

[chicken]

That's what i said!

Read my quote ..And you even quoted him and didn't catch it...his method is for breaking a stud with stripped threads, not grabbing a stripped nut head.

no beat the socket over and break it loose and spin it off, ive done it hundreds of times, never replaced a stud, hes referring to the socket never breaking

 

[NoLimit95]

no i think he means beat the socket over and break it loose and spinning it off, ive done it hundreds of times, never replaced a stud

I'm also seeing it as a stripped head, not threads lol. Why would anyone beat a socket onto stripped threads?

 

[chicken]

I'm also seeing it as a stripped head, not threads lol. Why would anyone beat a socket onto stripped threads?

you can slip a socket over it and put a long extension on it and flex the stud till it breaks off

 

[NoLimit95]

you can slip a socket over it and put a long extension on it and flex the stud till it breaks off

I'm not doubting that but he wasn't asking that to begin with. He wanted to know how to get a stripped headed lug nut off just like the way we have removed locking lugs that are completely round.

 

[Sapperfire]

I'm not doubting that but he wasn't asking that to begin with. He wanted to know how to get a stripped headed lug nut off just like the way we have removed locking lugs that are completely round.

Yes! At least someone pays attention

 

[chicken]

I'm not doubting that but he wasn't asking that to begin with. He wanted to know how to get a stripped headed lug nut off just like the way we have removed locking lugs that are completely round.

Yes! At least someone pays attention

ok were all confused and i think were agreeing. no one said anything about stripped threads till you brought it up sapp and i was pointing out that the other person you originally quoted wasnt talking about breaking it just spinnin it off after hammering a socket on.