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I'm amazed that when folks encounter a difficult situation, their
first inclination is to grab the 'fire wrench'. I've never torched off anything
and I've been doing this for several decades now.
Here's what I would do: Use a die grinder with a 1.5" cutoff wheel,
which is actually a 3" cutoff wheel that is half-consumed. Start running it
across a flat side of the frozen lug nut until you begin to see threads. Then do
the same on the other side. Then spray some PB Blaster on the nut. Find a wrench
that will fit over the newly shaved flats and tap the end of the wrench one way,
then the other way, with a 3 lb sledgehammer. Things will break free as the two
halves of the nut come loose. When you see some separation from the stud, you
can chisel the halves loose. Now repeat the procedure for the other four. I
suspect someone put right-handed nuts on the left side, or vice versa, or put
metric nuts on the studs.
Just FYI, you have to be patient when doing this procedure. Don't
rush.
Ron
@Big Al, Liked "Back in
the 60's
we used to alternate right and left hand lugs to prevent
theft."
I
had a newer Mopar a while back that I had to burn off the stud to
get the wheel off. This one on the 57 has all 5 stuck and rounded.
They were undersized before rounding (apparently someone used non-standard lug
nuts), and fully seized on the studs. I could heat and try again, but
without welding five new sockets on the five studs, or heating and breaking
the five nuts, or maybe burning off the five studs, there is no easy
answer.
I really appreciate all of the suggestions offered, but (and to
complicate the situation, the car is outside, tight against the outside wall
of my detached garage, with about 2-3 feet of space, and the welding tanks are
in my attached garage) it seems that the best solution is to burn off the
studs/nuts, or try to remove the wheel and brake drum as a whole.
If, as I assume, the drum has the studs pressed into the drum itself,
and I can get it to come free, I can take it off and take it to a local
machine shop, or just replace the brake drum.
Am I missing something
here? Some of you guys have more experience on these than I do (I am a
youngster at 71), and certainly more knowledge with this problem on Forward
Look and other Mopars....
Since this is a D-500 car, I don't
want to trash it before I get a chance to restore it.
Larry (Akron)
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Message----- From: Bill Parker via MML < mml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Mopar Mailing List
< mml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bill Parker < hemirr@xxxxxxxxx> Sent:
Sat, Sep 12, 2020 1:50 pm Subject: Re: Stuck Wheel Lug Nuts
It’s probably just me but I’ve never had any luck with any of the
types of easy outs working on rusty frozen fasteners. Getting them cherry red
usually works as someone already mentioned but I had one a little bit ago on
an old aluminum mag that I guess had become one with the nut and it still
wouldn’t move. > On Sep 12, 2020, at 12:52
PM, Big Al via MML < mml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This tool is better than an easy out for
removing broken bolts right or > left hand thread. > > https://www.cpooutlets.com/ridgid-35585-20-piece-screw-extractor-set/rgsn35585.html?ref=pla&zmam=31282435&zmas=47&zmac=722&zmap=rgsn35585&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5OmM34bk6wIVpBx9Ch0FFQovEAQYBCABEgJXp_D_BwE> > Lots of suppliers for left hand wheel lugs
nuts and lug bolts. Back in the > 60's we used to alternate
right and left hand lugs to prevent theft. > > Al > > >
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 7:34 AM Ken Cullinan via MML
< >> mml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The nice thing about unsticking
lug nuts vs. say an exhaust manifold bolt >> is that the
threads are “exposed”. >> I have never run into a lug nut
that heating the nut bright orange hasn’t >> freed (focus
the flame on the outside of the nut). Let it cool slowly >> (don’t throw water on it and make the stud brittle) and
try again. >> I was going to say then use a large bolt
extractor, but Left hand lugs >> rules that out.
Chisel may work, especially an air chisel to shake things >> up. From there, I’d start whacking cheap, slightly
undersized Chinese >> sockets on the nut and back it off
that way. >> Ken C. >> >> >
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