Locking wheel nut snapped/sheared clean off

[Stuggerz]

Evening all...

 

As above... what the actual? Lol

 

Any ideas? How will I get the wheel off If I cant rotate the snapped wheel nut.

 

Tragic

[Stuggerz]

[Stuggerz]

[cov350z]

the only option is to bash an old socket onto it and then brute force or s a weld a nut to it and then use a socket

[Stuggerz]

I can see this being a mare...

[cov350z]

at home yes in a garage/workshop its a 5 min job happens more times than it should lol that and people loosing the keys for the locking nuts

[GMballistic]

Two options I can think of:

It will have to be drilled out, ...a PITA tbh and if you're not careful doing it then you will damage your alloy wheel as well as your hub.

 

Other option I can think of is to drill a small hole into the snapped bolt, ...then you will need to either tap the hole to fit a smaller size bolt or use an epoxy to fix a smaller size bolt into the hole which once set you use to unscrew the sheered locking nut.

[Floydbax]

This happened to mine, I just went down to the local tyre place where they had a nut removal tool (most of them have these) and it was off in 2 seconds as if it was a normal nut. Don't panic it's really easy and not a hassle

[GMballistic]

This is what I imagine Stuggerz is looking at trying to remove...

 

 

Is that right??

I can't see a nut removal tool working Floydbax if that's the case.

 

...Or have you got more to work with Stuggarz?

[Stuggerz]

I have more to work with. I can get a pair of pliers to grip the remaing. But havnt got the beans to rotate it. I rotated it a little bit on full hulk mode... but my skeletor arms couldnt generate the power lol

[cov350z]

from your first pics it seems that the locking nut has come apart in 2 peices so the nut is still on and not the bolt snapped so it just a case of finding something thatll grip the bit of the nut left.

got a pick of whats left?

[Floydbax]

It's a common fault of the OEM Nissan (McGuard), locking nuts, the 'spinny' bit breaks off, but leaves enough of a stump for the 'removal tool' to get it off.

[Ekona]

Just promise me that, when this is over, that you'll remove all the stupid things and replace them with regular nuts.

[veilside z]

Hope all goes well buddy

[Stuggerz]

hhahahh thanks all. Lets see what happens today. Will keep u all posted. Think im gona ditch locking wheel nuts.

[ilogikal1]

Just promise me that, when this is over, that you'll remove all the stupid things and replace them with regular nuts.

 

Just me who wants to see him try to use the broken again then?

 

[Ekona]

You're an evil man

[Stuggerz]

Update.

 

Locking nut off. Pushed a 19mm 12 star socket onto it. Luckily it came off no bother.

 

The stud on my spacer was too long for the locking nut. Lol

 

No locking wheel nuts in sight

Edited July 29, 2016 by Stuggerz

[ioneabee]

ok - we know where to look for some prized wheels on blue zed in Southampton

[Stuggerz]

ok - we know where to look for some prized wheels on blue zed in Southampton

 

Loool dont scratch my paint when u steal them. Also make sure you feed the rotty

Edited July 29, 2016 by Stuggerz

[GMballistic]

Glad you got it sorted Stuggerz and great looking alloys btw.

[Stuggerz]

Glad you got it sorted Stuggerz and great looking alloys btw.

 

Cheers dude will add my new centre cap mod to my build thread soon.

[rabbitstew]

Result!!!

[ioneabee]

with the stumps of my torn off arms I can't get any more of those nuts off

 

I reckon you're right ............. locking wheel nuts not needed

[coldel]

Hope they are steel not ally wheel nuts, the ally ones are prone to shearing off