Ok, so there are some locking lug nuts you can buy where you need a key to get them off. I am sure everyone knows what I am talking about. Well, I have no key. Any way I can get the wheel off?

 

Whose wheels you stealing ?














j/k

 

The ones off the track car.

 

it will be hard getting the wheel off without the right tool. maybe you can find one at a place like discount tire?

 

Yeah, whose wheel is this Stu?

Maybe you can drill it out?

 

That's gonna suck - - it's what those things are designed to stop you from doing. The good ones are case-hardened and will take a huge amount of effort to drill/cut off.

Can you reach the sides of the bolt-head, or are they down in a hole?

If you can reach them, grind flats on either side to accomodate a big-*** open-end wrench.

If they're recessed into the wheel... man, I dunno.

 

A couple ways, but will probably sacrifice the locking lug.

1. Get a mm socket slightly smaller than the locking lug, and force it on with a hammer, then turn.

2. Use an angle grinder to reshape the head to fit a socket, or pipe/monkey wrench. May need to add a longer piece of pipe to the handle in order to get enough torque to turn it.

 

+1 for the smash fit and wrench off maneuver.

 

Yeah, that is how we did it when I worked at Toyota. We had a tapered 3/8th socket, and you slide it on then hammer it. That makes the wheel lug jammed inside and you just twist it off.

The lock is the cylinder kinds, with a funny shaped key. Might have to go to discount tire, but the car has no engine.

 

there are special sockets to take off wheel locks. They have reverse threads inside to grip the bolt.:

like these: http://www.brandsport.com/ctam-a155.html

 

Craftsman makes a socket called "bolt-out". It's a hardened steel that has an aggresive, tapered reverse thread inside. Never failed me yet.

 

What SGT FOX said...

That thing took off all four wheel locks on my DIRTY SE quickly. I almost couldn't believe how well it worked...

Wheel locks are pointless if the thief owns that thing haha.

 

Hmm, I have just been told by a friend that I can weld a nut on and just ratchet it off.

 

So long as you don't end up welding the wheel lock to the stud, yes. Though if it's chromed, it'll be rather hard to weld to.

The inside-out easy-outs sound like the ticket.