I also posted this in the eg forum but I thought I'd give it a shot in here too

The other day I was swapping on my other wheels before going to the track and of course on the last wheel the last lug would not come off just keeps spinning in either direction. My guess is that the lug crossthreaded onto the stud resulting in a stripped stud and lug nut. Well replacing the stud is not my problem but its getting the #%$@ wheel off I had 3 of my buddies pull the wheel with all of thier weight as I went at it with an impact gun and still nothin. So my buddy over at discount tire referred me to this muffler shop since he sends his discount tire customers there in situations like this. Well I get a call back from the shop and they cant get it off either. They told me that going at the lugnut with an impact hammer would just flatten out the bits since the lug is not aluminum so I'll either have to destroy and replace my wheel(kinda hard to do since my wheel has been discontinued a few years back and its hard to find) or find another shop that knows some trick that they dont.
Well the lug(steel lug ) is still threaded practically all the way in and it is impossible to hack it off without damaging the wheel. You guys have any ideas as to what I can do without destroying my wheel?? I would appreciate any help greatly

CLIFF NOTES: lug is prolly crossthreaded onto the stud, cant get lugnut and wheel off myself, referred shop cant take it off either what do I do??

 

Drill through the lugnut? Air chisel to crack it? Torch? Can you see the backside of the wheel stud from under the car?

 

i just answered this in another thread in the itr forum. go search there and you will find your answer

 

cant drill through it....the lugnut is metal it would just flatten out the bits, same gos for the air chisel. Torch....not near an aluminum wheel (I was thinking if i have to torch it Id prolly get a pipe to put it over the lug so the heat from the torch doesnt transfer as much to the wheel. Cant see the stud from the other side since the wheel is totally on still....there is no gap between the wheel to where i can get a hacksaw and cut it. I was thinking of getting ahold of a puller(if thats what its called lol) so it'll evenly pull on the wheel and maybe then trying to get the lug to catch a thread just so I can loosen it just enough to where I can get a gap behind the wheel and hack the stud off.

 

Had the same thing happen to me before. You can drill it. Doesn't matter what the lug is made of. Just make sure you're using a good quality drill bit. Took me 1 hour to drill quarter of the way through the stud/lug with some sorry bits. Then got some really good bit and took me about 10 mins to drill the whole thing.


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