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[TRX23rider]

well i was doing a routine tire change on my truck because i poped the tire and the lug nuts were all rusted on, i sprayed them in wd40 and let them soak all day and went out to get them off. i got them all off but two and i was pulling so hard on one that the rachet broke, strippping the bolt when it happened, so now i have no way to get the stripped bolt off. i tried all the little tricks like fit a smaller socket on it but it is still so tight that nothing will work, any one have any ideas before i ahve to have the tow truck take it away?

if i dont get it fixed by saturday i am going to miss my race which would suck!!!

[MR.BIG]

Did you try heating it up with one of those propane torches.

[quadsquadron221]

Get a penetrating oil called pb blaster. Way better than wd-40. Or just cut it off with a torch

[nosliw]

take it to les schwabb and ask for a free tire rotation.

[wolffie]

um...wanna borrow our trailer? the caddy can pull it:D

[DieselBoy]

Get it really hot with a torch (no, not a cutting torch) and try again, if the hex is already rounded off your in deep trouble... big pair of vice grips with a pipe?

this excact thing happened to us the only thing we could do was heat it up realllly long and then we snapped it off. then we baught a new lugnut kit and bolt and every thing for like 20 bucks

[TRX23rider]

well i heated it with a propane torch for like ten minunets and i still could not get it to budge, i guess i gotta call the tow truck and have a real mechanic try and get it off. we even got a 10ft pole for some extra leverage and all that would happen is we bent whatever we used.

[JW450R1]

they make a socket called turbo sockets,that u bang over top of the lug nut and spin them off with a air gun.or if the lug nuts r butchered up that bad,try cutting them off with a torch,or with a 3 foot breaker bar break them off and them just replace the lug studs and u will be good

Originally posted by JW450R1
break them off and them just replace the lug studs and u will be good

excactly what i did

[Hornbreaker]

Grind the lugnut off flush to the rim remove the wheel & bang the stud through the hub. Then you can replace the stud & lugnut. That's what I had to do on my truck when someone tryed to help my wife change a flat. This good person rounded the nut.

[DieselBoy]

yeah, just cut it off now, and replace it with new studs

[Mx_523]

Originally posted by nosliw
take it to les schwabb and ask for a free tire rotation.

I'm with him.:p

[bluebaron]

heat with torch and pneumatic impack wrench

[sakirocket28]

you can also try grinding the rounded off points into flat edges, then using a reguular socket on a breaker bar to get em off. if not, i second the idea of grinding them off the studs and getting new studs all around. good luck!:)