Originally Posted by Baldy' post='823701' date='Jun 12 2006, 11:12 AM

Had a flat/ripped tire. One lug nut was rusted, rounded, and looked like someone had tried hitting it with a chisel. We tried hammering on a smaller socket, no go. We tried chipping away at it with a cold chisel, and cutting it off with a dremel. It's mangled beyond belief now, luckily we didn't mark up the wheel too bad (and any marks will be under the center cap, it's a vert wheel).



So how can I get this damn thing off? The whole assembly on that corner is almost removed, just have to get the tie rod out of the steering knuckle, and it'll be loose. I had to get the car towed home, it pissed me off.



Once I get the hub off of the car, can I get to the back of the lug bolt to cut it? Since the lug nut is tapered, even if I cut it off flush it wouldn't free it. I'm afraid to drill, for messing up the aluminum wheel.

Originally Posted by banzaitoyota' post='823905' date='Jun 13 2006, 10:15 AM

Buy some good drill bits and start drilling.



Your best bet is to remove the hub/knuckle/wheel and take it to a shop with a large mill and attack it with and endmill

Originally Posted by knonfs' post='823903' date='Jun 13 2006, 10:11 AM

When I bought the AE, the owner had lost the socket for the key lock nut :(



I ended up using an impact socket, hammered it with a 10lbs hammer (how you call those things?), and then used a breaker bar to unbolt the nut. Needless to say that the nut won't come off the socket, but at least I got the nut off https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683329.gif



Just find a socket that *ALMOST* fit to the nut, here is the reason why the socket needs to be hamerred into the nut (the hardest part) https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683358.gif

Originally Posted by knonfs' post='823928' date='Jun 13 2006, 11:20 AM

Damn , my bad for the useless post https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif



I thought you were trying to remove the wheel https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683561.gif

Originally Posted by Baldy' post='823955' date='Jun 13 2006, 01:20 PM

I am! We tried hammering on a socket, but it was either already cracked, or we cracked it.



I'd take a pic, but the car's out in my yard, and there's that whole tropical storm thing in my yard too.

Originally Posted by knonfs' post='823972' date='Jun 13 2006, 01:57 PM

Was it an impact socket?? Regular sockets won't whistand the 10lbs hammer :(