Topic: Lug Nut Help

[Burke]

I WAS goint to change the pads a rotors on my Cirrus this afternoon, but one lug deceided that its not coming off. I have heated it  pounded it with an impact and I have managed to do is round it off nicely. There is not enough clearance to get a nut splitter in there, so How can I get it off?

I am sure guys at brake shops run it to this all the time, how do they deal with it?

[Gordon]

If nothing else works you may have to cut it off and then get another stud welded on, but if you're gonna do that, you may as well just take it to a shop as is and get them to remove the nut for you. 

[Burke]

If nothing else works you may have to cut it off and then get another stud welded on, but if you're gonna do that, you may as well just take it to a shop as is and get them to remove the nut for you. 

Thats pretty much where i'm at. 
Gotta love it.

[mrbreeze]

If you have an impact gun.......just keep hammerin' on it till it breaks the stud. You are going in to do your brakes anyway so all you have to do is buy a new stud and lugnut & install. Lots cheaper than what a shop will charge ya'.

[Gordon]

If you have an impact gun.......just keep hammerin' on it till it breaks the stud.

The nut is rounded off. 

[mrbreeze]

Oh yeah!!! .......well OK!....Take it to the shop.They won't charge much or at all to remove the lugnut if they have a special socket for the job. If the nut is stuck to the stud...it will all have to be replaced and changing the stud is what will cost ya.

[jsaab2748]

before giving up, try driving the next numerically smaller sized meric socket over the rounded nut
with a hammer. Use an impact type socket, FORCE it on, and give it a twist, It's what the shop is gonna do, short of torching the stud and nut completely. The special tool they use works this same way.

[DammitDan]

How about a pair of heavy duty vise grips, a long hollow metal tube (for leverage) and/or a hammer?  It's what I do when I round off stuck screws and bolts on the bikes...