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great video
so the purpose of hitting with a hammer is to force the stuck parts to come unstuck with a bit of brute force?
I don't think aluminum wheels are supposed to use those kind of lug nuts.
Thank you for the tip! Who would know except you? These tips can ultimately save us time and money.
What about using a very small amount of anti seize on the lug nut?
Your go to love that dog.
Mmmmm….on big rigs..on some trucks there is ahead of axle nuts not wheel nuts , cups or acorn you might say, always get the split ones, meaning there's a cut portion, they aren't solid all around. Them ones are easy to get off, the solid ones are a pitta to get off.
In your case, if the hammer trick doesn't work, I would use freeze off, it's a spray that cool's the fastener down to -60 in a few seconds and what it does is breaks the bond between two pieces of metal. Works like a charm on any rusted on fastener.
thanks for the vid, be well!
Interesting…
Great tip Kenny – i'd never seen that before. ALSO thank you for using the tripod. It makes it easier to see what you are doing.
Not rotating your wheels like you're supposed to helps create this problem. Older Dodges seem to be the worst from what I've noticed just like you said.
It looks like he was driving it like that for awhile.😂
Excellent!
Don't pull up on the breaker bar Kenny! Get on the other side and push down using your weight. I actually pulled my right arm out of my shoulder socket pulling up on a breaker bar trying to remove a wheel from my F150!!!!
Great tip Kenny! Enjoy all your vids!
Wow I have changed alot of tires working in a tire shop, l never had a lug nut brake liklike you mentioned, snapped a lot of studs! But l too always hammer the lug nuts if lm reaching the point that l suspect trouble!🤣
Good tech tip !! Thanks !!
I live in the rust belt. I used to run two garages back in the day. I've been putting a light coat of "never sieze" on lug nuts, lug bolts, and studs for decades and decades. I also put it on the threaded portion of valve stems, especially if the car has metal caps. Never had a single problem. Many people don't like this practice, but it works. Especially good for the old splined spinners on foreign sports cars.
I have one on my 2002Grand Cherokee. The nut split in half. The Acorn is still threaded in.
You always see this or that happen. Stop saying that its annoying
How often do you have to change the rear brakes? If they last 3 to 4 times longer than the front then the brake bias is set wrong and the fronts are doing too much of the work. Maybe your proportioning valve has always been defective or out of adjustment.
Brilliant tip. I would never have thought of that.
That’s a great trick , years ago my grandpa would laugh at us young know it alls struggling with something like that on the farm.
He would say , here’s an old Indian trick that a young cowboy showed him
I am definitely going to try this. Thank you for the tip.
I hate those type lugs, nice trick. Back many moons ago, I worked for a Goodyear store and had a customer ask me not to use the impact on his wheels, because he claimed he couldn't get them off. I took him in the back, even though I wasn't supposed to. I showed him the difference in using an impact and using the 4 way. I told him if I used that 4 way, for sure he would never get them off.
Shouldn’t you be pulling the bar towards yourself?
I'd have sprayed some PB Blaster on them. Some people say that stuff can't work, doesn't work.. try it. You may be surprised.. some people make a mix of like 3 different pene lubes…..
Ive broken three or four of those dumb Chrysler studs with a tire iron. The studs break off completely at the base never just the "socket" portion as you described. But yeah got a bfh and pounded out the broken stud and replaced with doorman studs never had that problem the next brake job ir tire rotation. Only the factory studs on steel wheels (no alloys) were the issue. Was actually told that Chrysler studs were problematic by a tire technician.
Mechanics in the rust belt area have an extra level of talent.
Dissimilar metals + water = galvanic corrosion. Big fun (not). Great tip; hopefully I shan't have to use it with the family brake jobs I'll have in the near future. 😉
Good recommendation on how to break that lug nut free and put a dab of grease on the acorn when re-installing…. 👍
Thanks for the heads up. New trick.
I learned something.
The wheel stealers use another method to free wheel locks – they loosen the other lug nuts a bit and let the customer drive for a few weeks and do the job helping them to remove wheel lock "by hand".
I have seen the lug nut seized on the lug bolt. Using a pipe for more leverage snapped the lug bolt.
I have put a dab of never seize on the tapered seat of the lug nut and a dab on the threads of the stud and torqued the nuts to specs never had a wheel come loose especially you have aluminum rims been doing this for the last 30 years since I bought my suburban with factory aluminum wheels and 8 lugs back in 1990. Saved myself a lot of aggravation and back pain 😂
In my history of mechanical doings, I did find a L/H nut & stud on one wheel. 4 R/H -1 L/H .Gotta stay awake in this business. Full of sprizes.
Awesome idea. Never had this happen but now I'm ready if it does.
Thank you
A lug nut has 2 parts? I'm sticking with Chevy
I know this as “Shocking the Threads”. I’ve got a block hammer I use that’s fondly referred to as “My Friend”. He often ‘talks’ to stubborn nuts and bolts.
I’m really lucky that I have a small, portable 24 litre air compressor at home. I hook it up to a hand held air hammer and “Brrrup” the socket the same way you used the BFH.
This sounds like the classic Aluminium + Steel = seriously stubborn fastener and the skin off your knuckles.
That's a good tip, Kenny. I never thought about that, most people would have just gorilla-gripped that breaker bar. You're the only one I've seen on YT mention that about the acorn part seizing to the rim instead of the lug stud. Thanks for sharing.
Its a Dodge, send it to the scrap yard before it nickels and dimes, or dollars you to death😅
I have invested in a Torque multiplier. It puts smooth constant pressure and that has worked for me. Also run a small grinder over that rim to smooth out any knicks that caused the lock up.
Thanks for the advice. If you know you know. A lot do not. 👍
I see students use an impact gun to tighten lug nuts. 99% of the time they are over torqued. They use a Torque Wrench set at 90ft lbs and nearly always clicks without turning the lug nut. The final turning MUST be done with the Torque Wrench otherwise you have over torque the nut.!
Interesting
When I was young and even more dumb than I am now I had a steel wheel rust to a brake rotor. It took a lot to break that free. Asked a mechanic about it and he told me to use white lithium grease on the rotor or drum before installing the wheel. He also told me to use a little anti seize for the lugs and the mating surfaces on the lug nuts. Never had another problem and I drive old cars up in the rust belt. Lots of people say don’t use any type of oil or anti seize on lugs. Personally I think that is baloney if you torque the nuts properly. If anything a little lube helps set the torque correctly. They don’t get loose and they come off easy. But do what you are comfortable with.
Lots of the problems in my opinion is failure to torque correctly. I see the mechanics where I work grab a torque stick which I don’t trust or worse yet just drive them home with an impact. Who cares, it’s a customer’s car and the next guys problem right?
I also remember when I was a teenager my girlfriend”s father had trouble breaking a lug nut free. He left the other lug nuts slightly loose and took a slow speed run up and down the block and it came free after that. I have never tried that but it worked for him. Sort of like the BFH trick but in a pinch you could try it roadside.
Great tip. I can think of several other things I would have tried but I doubt that I would have tried beating on it with a 16 lb sledgehammer. Fast easy option…..a little counterintuitive but brilliant.
Great tip!!! Been there and didn't have a BFH, but a dead blow hammer helped, along with PB Blaster and a torch, and prayer!!!
Thanks for that tip!
I have seen head seize onto the head bolts to the point we replaced the engine.
Rotating your tires periodically beats a BFH any day.