Can't get my wheel off
12-12-05, 03:49 PM
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Can't get my wheel off
What an embarassing question. I'm trying to take off my rear driver side wheel, and have taken off the five lug nuts but the wheel won't budge. Is there another nut underneath the center cap? I didn't want to pry and damage it or just pound on the wheel to get it off until I know for sure how it comes off.
It is jacked up in reverse gear with the ebrake off.
PS Feel free to move this to the tire section, I figure it was a bit more specific here.
It is jacked up in reverse gear with the ebrake off.
PS Feel free to move this to the tire section, I figure it was a bit more specific here.
12-12-05, 03:52 PM
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It's not uncommon for the wheel to get stuck to the wheel hub. The 5 lug nuts are all that hold it on - if it's stubborn, use a rubber mallet or something to tap the back side of the wheel to help pop it off.
It'll just take a little elbow grease, but it will come off.
Dale
It'll just take a little elbow grease, but it will come off.
Dale
12-12-05, 04:07 PM
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ya..I've encountered the problem many a time..corrosion betwwen the alloy rims and the steel hub(rotor,what-ever)..I just laid on my back and gave the thing a hard stomp with my foot on one side then the other ..if that did not work..hit it (on the inner of the tire) with something BIG!..lightly coat witha little anti-sieze on the rim(where the wheel meets the hub) and you will be good for miles to come..
12-12-05, 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by RE-Amemiya7
Kick the wheel, its just stuck.
Way to come up with the solution hours after everyone else suggested and the guy used it! :-P
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12-12-05, 07:23 PM
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LOL
This happens to me all the time.
I just use a big pice of wood and slam it into the inside or back side of the wheel while slowly rotating it.
If I don't have a big piece of wood I'll use a small piece placed between the wheel and a swinging hammer.
This happens to me all the time.
I just use a big pice of wood and slam it into the inside or back side of the wheel while slowly rotating it.
If I don't have a big piece of wood I'll use a small piece placed between the wheel and a swinging hammer.
12-12-05, 07:30 PM
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My Aprentice teacher was telling me one time they had this older thunderbird, could not get the wheel off so they loosened the lugs just enough to give the rim some play went into the parking lot and started doing really really hard corning, siad it just poped off like nobodies buiness.
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12-12-05, 07:50 PM
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what he did was have about a 2 hair thickness space between the lugs and the wheel just enough for it to move yet it will still catch it when it comes loose, and you can drive around with only 2 lugs that are properly secured down, but hard driving put all on right and then have fun, so you don't screw up you undercarriage by having a wheel fall off, unless you drive the original Hummer, is was bananced with a Gyroscope so that any one wheel could be off at a time and drive like it had 4, corners and all, that was truely amazing what they did .
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12-13-05, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Prôdigy2nd
what he did was have about a 2 hair thickness space between the lugs and the wheel just enough for it to move yet it will still catch it when it comes loose, and you can drive around with only 2 lugs that are properly secured down, but hard driving put all on right and then have fun, so you don't screw up you undercarriage by having a wheel fall off, unless you drive the original Hummer, is was bananced with a Gyroscope so that any one wheel could be off at a time and drive like it had 4, corners and all, that was truely amazing what they did .
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really lol i would like to see a read up about that
12-13-05, 10:06 PM
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The wheels actually are kinda "stuck on purpose" because they are "hub-centric" wheels. It's actually a combination of wheel and rotor. So yes, it's normal and all you have to do is kick it one good time on the side of the tire and it should come loose.
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