Il take any advice on taking this lug nut out!

[Badunit]

Not sure what you would use an air chisel on. The cone of the lug nut is not going to be easy to get to without even more extensive wheel damage. Drilling the stud out looks like a pain but it keeps all the damage contained away from the wheel and will get all the way to the root of the lug nut.

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[KEG2021]

Not sure what you would use an air chisel on. The cone of the lug nut is not going to be easy to get to without even more extensive wheel damage. Drilling the stud out looks like a pain but it keeps all the damage contained away from the wheel and will get all the way to the root of the lug nut.

Dremel with a dental burr or something like that..keep grinding until you can flip an edge up and maybe get a punch and hammer to tap it loose. Works on planes…

 

[Jteakus]

Small drill bit, drill multiple holes at 12,3,6 and 9 o'clock positions then hit it with a small chisel bit on an air hammer

 

[Jt_gladi]

Small drill bit, drill multiple holes at 12,3,6 and 9 o'clock positions then hit it with a small chisel bit on an air hammer

thanks il try this to

 

[Jteakus]

Post up pics of whatever the solution is, I'd like to know.

 

[Jt_gladi]

Post up pics of whatever the solution is, I'd like to know.

will do bro

 

[Moby]

I agree with suggestions to use a Dremel with a small cutting disc or carbide burr to grind it into separable pieces. I have a couple of electric die grinders (Makitas) so I can get more power or different cutting/grinding tools on something like this, but the effect is still the same. The stud looks like it’s ruins in the pictures (to me, anyway), so cut whatever gets it out.

 

[Summitsearcher]

Welp, you’ll never find that vehicle on blocks in the mornin. Your tenacity would impress any formidable wheel thief.

 

[Minty JL]

this sounds more of a simple thing to do, just hit it with nitrogen and give it a good wack?

This would be the simplest route......but those are not normal off the shelf solutions.

Next would be to chop/grind that wheel stud as low as possible and hope you can get a turbo socket on it, smash it on and back it off with an impact.

Wheel studs are pretty fuckin hard........drilling one of those out is going to be a total bitch.......been there and done that.......never again. Hence the reason I spent a mint on the Snap On truck for the turbo sockets.

Shitty situation to have dropped in your lap. When in doubt phone a friend before you get over zealous and make shit worse.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

this sounds more of a simple thing to do, just hit it with nitrogen and give it a good wack?


i actually just bought a dremel with a ton of attachments, you suggest grinding it down? Or try to cut it ?

I'd try cutting first, otherwise grind a good notch on one side of it and split it.
I've had to do similar on nuts so badly rusted and frozen there was no taking them off otherwise.

 

[rharr]

GAS AX, with the smallest tip you got, burn it off and replace the lug.

 

[Stan H]

This is not my Jeep

So I am doing a Ball Joint job for a friend and one of his lug nuts was all busted, I cant even get started on the main job
IL TAKE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO GET THIS LUG NUT OUT

Say a Chisel and hammer or air chisel in spurts to ya don't slip off and hit the rim

 

[ShadowsPapa]

No way I'd take an air chisel to that. Not enough control or space. Air chisel tools tend to be larger, thicker, fatter, and the rapid hammering effect means it's gonna slip off that tapered, slanted nut side.
I've used almost every mechanic tool there is, and still own most of them, it would be my very last choice. I'd use a torch way before I'd do an air chisel. Spurts are still going to give dozens of hits on a tool that's not able to be extremely fine controlled.
Take it from a guy who runs into this sort of thing constantly, has for decades, even today, in restorations I do.
There are far better tools for such things since the 1960s.

I've made chisels that were tapered 3 ways to lay against studs and split nuts down the side - standard shapes don't do well, taper it into a sort of triangle with a sharp nose.

But really, keep the air chisel in the drawer where it belongs.

 

[Levi.Butler]

If you're enough of a meathead and that's the last lug left, you can yank on the wheel/tire opposite of the stud and snap the wheel stud and then just replace it. I've seen wheel thieves do that with the locking lug nuts.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

If you're enough of a meathead and that's the last lug left, you can yank on the wheel/tire opposite of the stud and snap the wheel stud and then just replace it. I've seen wheel thieves do that with the locking lug nuts.

Badly scarring the other 4 holes and necessitating the replacement of the other studs.
The angle that wheel would have to come off at would gouge the crap out of the holes.
If I was wanting to save the wheel, that wouldn't be a choice. If the wheel was scrap metal, maybe.
Thieves don't care, but don't try that on my vehicle - not to save the wheel. The other holes wouldn't clear the long studs.
If you can replace ball joints, you have the tools to remove that without further damage.
This isn't really that complicated at all - really a simple issue, IMO.

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