Took my caravan into a tire dealer for a wheel balance. Twenty minutes into
it he tells me there is a problem with the nuts stripping. THe nuts have
some sort of tin shield over them for purly estetic looks I believe but
anyhow what happened was that the shields came off. The guy doing the job
put the 19mm impact over the bar nut which is of course slightly smaller
in
size now because the steel shield is missing. He rounds the edges over on
5
of the 10 nuts holding the two front tires on and then procedes to use a
nut
extractor to try and remove one of the nuts. Now we have one nut that is
totally round and stuck solid and nine that are somewhat rounded and stuck
on. To make matters worse, I have alloys on the van. I stopped the guys
from
going any farther and took the van home, didn't see any point in digging
the
hole any deeper. I have been looking at the mess and it looks like
drilling
the stud will be the only way to get the totally rounded nut off the dam
stud. Has anyone had this same problem and what did you do to resolve it.
The dealer is an option but I would like to give this one a go myself
first.
If the nuts weren't down in a bit of a recess in the alloy rim a dremel
would certainly be the answer, and may yet be but it will be difficult to
cut the nut and not hit the rim. Suggestions please.
Any info appreciated.
Bill
