In article <Pt1vj.45500$C61.7250@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Bill Falconer" <falconw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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 ****eld over them for purly estetic looks I believe but
> anyhow what happened was that the ****elds 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 ****eld 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
Happens all the time, it's either boogered up acorn nuts or lost
puzzle lock keys...
All that needs to be done is to weld a 1/2" nut on the end of the
problem nuts, then remove via method of choice.
It would have been nice if they had thought to use a 17mm socket
on the nuts that were missing the tin covers, but tire busters
aren't the brightest lot.
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