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Find an iron pipe you can hammer/force over the rounded nut (works well on
keyed McGard-style locknuts). Use a pipe wrench to turn iron pipe one way or the other way. Good luck. "James P. H. Fuller" > wrote in message om... > Just lugnuts on a farm trailer wheel, but I can't get them off. > They've been on for years, probably put on with an air wrench, > certainly good'n'rusted. I've tried socket wrench, cross wrench, > electric impact wrench, they won't budge. I've used a gallon of Liquid > Wrench, no joy. I took the trailer to a garage, they put their air > impact wrench on one nut and just (oh great) rounded it off. The wheel > is dished in and the lugs are placed in a sort of circular trough > within the dish, result being I can't get a nut splitter on the frozen > lugnuts. Can anybody suggest my next step? Blasting? Lightsaber? > Thanks very much! Jim Fuller, |
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G.R. Patterson III proclaimed:
> > "James P. H. Fuller" wrote: > >>The wheel >>is dished in and the lugs are placed in a sort of circular trough >>within the dish, result being I can't get a nut splitter on the frozen >>lugnuts. > > > If you're serious about splitting the nuts, this can be done from the end of the nut > rather than the side by using a cold chisel. Lots of work, though. Using a good cold chisel aided by a Dremel is pretty good. Slow, but sometimes just cutting a very thin slice in the nut will allow it to be removed without the chisel. Best done with a tungsten carbide or better yet, diamond, bit. |
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Chrysler used left hand threads on one side of the vehicle and right hand
threads on the other side. The mind grows dimmer, though, and I can't remember which side was which. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "G.R. Patterson III" wrote: > Larry wrote: > > > > Here's a thought. Any possibility it's a left-hand thread? If it is a > > homemade trailer, and the builder happened to use a wheel/axle from, for > > example, a 50's Chrysler product, you may be tightening it further when > > you think you're loosening it. > > Didn't the old Chrysler products have an "L" stamped on the end of the lugs? > > George Patterson > If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have > been looking for it. |
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Ken McNairn wrote: > Chrysler used left hand threads on one side of the vehicle and right hand > threads on the other side. The mind grows dimmer, though, and I can't remember > which side was which. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > "G.R. Patterson III" wrote: > > >>Larry wrote: >> >>>Here's a thought. Any possibility it's a left-hand thread? If it is a >>>homemade trailer, and the builder happened to use a wheel/axle from, for >>>example, a 50's Chrysler product, you may be tightening it further when >>>you think you're loosening it. >> >>Didn't the old Chrysler products have an "L" stamped on the end of the lugs? >> >>George Patterson >> If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have >> been looking for it. > > I *think* it was right-hand thread on the right side, and left-hand thread on left side. The theory, as I recall, was that if a lug nut came loose, the forward motion of the vehicle would be more likely to keep the nut from working its way off the stud. Larry |
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Larry wrote: > > I *think* it was right-hand thread on the right side, and left-hand > thread on left side. The theory, as I recall, was that if a lug nut came > loose, the forward motion of the vehicle would be more likely to keep > the nut from working its way off the stud. That's definitely the idea, as I recall, but I still think they marked the left-hand threaded lugs. IIRC, they stamped the end of the lug with an "L" on one side of the car. BTW, I also remember it being the left side of the car that had the left-hand threads. I worked at a gas station in the mid-60s, and ran into it in the usual way. :-) George Patterson If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have been looking for it. |
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"G.R. Patterson III" > wrote in message ... > > > Larry wrote: > > > > I *think* it was right-hand thread on the right side, and left-hand > > thread on left side. The theory, as I recall, was that if a lug nut came > > loose, the forward motion of the vehicle would be more likely to keep > > the nut from working its way off the stud. > > That's definitely the idea, as I recall, but I still think they marked the left-hand > threaded lugs. IIRC, they stamped the end of the lug with an "L" on one side of the > car. > > BTW, I also remember it being the left side of the car that had the left-hand > threads. I worked at a gas station in the mid-60s, and ran into it in the usual way. > :-) Heh. I remember the same thing on a neighbor's car. We removed the wheels to paint them silver. It was a 60's Barracuda... |
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Larry wrote:
> I *think* it was right-hand thread on the right side, and left-hand > thread on left side. The theory, as I recall, was that if a lug nut came > loose, the forward motion of the vehicle would be more likely to keep > the nut from working its way off the stud. > > Larry > Yes. It's actually got a more complicated explanation than that, but you got the sides correct. Studebaker did the same thing, although they quit sometime between '56 and '62. Chrysler was using LH thread as late as 1969 and maybe later (that's just the newest MoPar I've worked on.) nate -- replace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel |
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G.R. Patterson III wrote:
> > Larry wrote: > >>I *think* it was right-hand thread on the right side, and left-hand >>thread on left side. The theory, as I recall, was that if a lug nut came >>loose, the forward motion of the vehicle would be more likely to keep >>the nut from working its way off the stud. > > > That's definitely the idea, as I recall, but I still think they marked the left-hand > threaded lugs. IIRC, they stamped the end of the lug with an "L" on one side of the > car. > > BTW, I also remember it being the left side of the car that had the left-hand > threads. I worked at a gas station in the mid-60s, and ran into it in the usual way. > :-) > So YOU'RE the guy that put the two right hand thread studs on my old Dart... #$%&^%^( <G> nate -- replace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel |
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Nate Nagel wrote: > > So YOU'RE the guy that put the two right hand thread studs on my old > Dart... #$%&^%^( <G> Hey! It was late and that's all we had in stock after I buggered up the originals. :-) George Patterson If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have been looking for it. |
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