Removing Locking Lugnuts - Without the Key
06-05-2006, 05:08 PM
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Removing Locking Lugnuts - Without the Key
Had an interesting experience today. The wife's truck was getting new tires and there was no key for the locking lug nuts on the truck. Well...F... now what!?!?!?!
A quick google search and I found this idea from a Corvette forum...
You need to get a 12 point socket that barely fits and...
I can tell you that it worked!!! I pounded on a 19mm socket and used a breaker bar to turn it slowly. Worked like a charm. Once the locking lugs were loose I simply pulled up and down slightly so that the socket would loosen up on the lug. Went to the stealership and picked up 4 news lug nuts and tossed the locking ones.
A quick google search and I found this idea from a Corvette forum...
You need to get a 12 point socket that barely fits and...
Drive it on tightly, 4-5 decent wacks with a ball pean hammer will do the trick. You have to make sure the slots in the socket bite into the lug nut. Use a manual lug wrench - not a pneumatic tool to loosen the lug. Slow even torque is the ticket. When loose the lug will be stuck tightly in the socket. Place socket in a vice and drive ilug nut out with a drift punch and repeat three more times. Then throw the stupid locks away and get some standard lugs from the dealer in town.
Last edited by DoubleZero4x4; 06-05-2006 at 10:34 PM.
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