i stripped the inner splines on the bolt cover and can't get the bolt out to get the wheel off now. any ideas?

 

get the car up in the air, have someone use a nice long piece of exhaust pipe and pry the wheel out while you unbolt the bolts

 

thats gonna suck... can you get to the bolt head? only thing I can think of is grinding the head off so you can remove the wheel, them extract the stud...

Another alternative method would be to possibly remove the brake rotor with the wheel attached, I just dont know if you can get the caliper bolt off while the wheel is on?

 

How in the hell did you do that anyways ???

 

If the splines on the stud in the wheel are ok, remove another wheel stud and remove the bolt cover and put it on the splined stud to remove it.

 

acrx7 i tried that it did the same thing

 

acrx7 i tried that it did the same thing

 

I had the same thing happen to me. I heated the **** out of it with a propane torch, hammered an impact socket on it that just barely fit, then used and imapct gun. Of course it ruined the socket, but atleast I got it off...

 

you can buy secialty tools that will grab the screwed up head, they look like large stud removers, well they are large stud removers. Good luck.

 

Take it to a tire shop. They should be able to take them off. I used to work at one. Impact guns are key at this type of removal.




Peace-

 

thanks for the help