Taiwanze7

I tried to raise my car (GC/Konis) the other day and found that one of the front lug nuts was completely stuck, I couldn't tighten or untighten the nut either way.... at this point I'm not sure how to take it off short of going to a place like discount tires.

jung01gsr

how far did you lower your car. and do you have camber kits or rims? i had the same problem and found out my lug nut was stripped.

Taiwanze7

hmmm...i have a 2 finger wheel gap, and ingalls camber kit and stock steelies. I recently did an alignment and everything is to spec's....what I'm afraid of is if the the lug did get stripped *suspcious*... in which case I have no clue how to fix

jung01gsr

if it is stripped, you'll have to get it professionally fixed unless you know how. it is pretty expensive to fix also. but there shouldn't be any reason why it is striped so i doubt that it is stripped.

harryg

spray some pb blaster all around the lug, tap the tire/rim with a soft mallet (to prevent damaging your rims) to try and take pressure off of the lug.

98GeeYes-Are

If your lug nut is stuck, get a large breaker bar and invite a friend over to help you push. If it didn't break loose, take it to your local tire shop and have them break it off. If your lug is stripped, just have it rethreaded.

redman223

All you have to do is take a dremel and grind off the back of the stud, and then use a hammer and a punch and just punch it out, then get a new stud and hammer it in, I have done this before, when 2 of my studs snapped off (with the lug on too) on the freeway!!!!!!! I was lucky I didnt die, but anyhow, thats how I fixed it.

reefer_bob

I'd do about the same thing. If it won't come off, get a bigger hammer. If you break the stud, it needed to be replaced anyway. At least the wheel will be off then... Just make sure you know how to replace studs, and have the proper tools before you break your chit.

Taiwanze7

thanks for the help!!! I'll look into it this weekend and hopefully I'll be able to get the lug nut off

GSRaCeRbOI

get a large breaker bar... I've been able to get off/break loose a lot of stuck bolts w/ my 18" breaker bar which I could not get loose using either a ratchet or tire iron... if that doesn't work maybe whoever worked on your wheels last was lazy and put the impact gun w/ the lug in the socket up to the thread bolt w/o first starting/screwing it in by hand... that happened to my friends car where the guy was lazy and mistreaded on the lug w/ an impact gun.. when we tried to remove the mistreaded/mis screwed lug nut.. the lug bolt snapped....

degradated

Just put some muscle into it!

And more leverage via breaker bar or whatever will help. I'm not sure if it would penetrate, but spraying break free might loosen it up (without overspray on the rotors).

If those things don't work (especially the leverage thing), then you could have a stripped lug or one of the other things my fellow H-T people have already pointed out.

ingrate

If it's the front stud, and you have an integra, replacing it is a lot more complicated than just hammering it out and screwing the new one back in. From what i saw, you'll need to pull the hub in order to replace the stud. A shop can probably do it for ~$50-100. If you're not sure you can replace it yourself, don't bother breaking off the lug and just let the shop do it.