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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / October 2005Wheel removal
My wife has a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am which needs to have the tires rotated. The wheel lugs were torqued on pretty tight but my 200 pounds on the lug wrench managed to loosen them. Unfortunately I cannot say the same for the aluminum wheels. They are stuck solid and refuse to budge. Any suggestions on how to loosen them for removal would be appreciated. Don you can try heating the nuts with a torch for a few seconds > My wife has a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am which needs to have the tires rotated. > The wheel lugs were torqued on pretty tight but my 200 pounds on the lug > wrench managed to loosen them. Unfortunately I cannot say the same for the > aluminum wheels. They are stuck solid and refuse to budge. Any suggestions > on how to loosen them for removal would be appreciated. > Don You would be surprised what you can do with your foot. Put the lug wrench on one of the lugs and use your 200 lbs to kick down on it. Then again, you could always use your keyboard... .....before jumping to respond. They would have read that you got actually your lugs off the car....... ......and, that the problem is that the whel is "frozen" to the hub..... .....instead of offering totally useless "advice"..... > .....before jumping to respond. > They would have read that you got actually your lugs off the car....... > ......and, that the problem is that the whel is "frozen" to the hub..... > .....instead of offering totally useless "advice"..... You are correct. I now suggest getting behind the wheel and kicking it or finding a BFH to hit it with. A long 4x4 can work too. Put enough force to bear on the tire and the wheel will come off. >.....before jumping to respond. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >.....instead of offering totally useless "advice"..... When I rotated my wheels/tires this summer, I put a light coating of anti-seize on the surfaces. It will be interesting next year when I rotate them again to see if it did any good. If the ant-seize gets washed off by rain, snow, water puddles, then I'll have to find another solution. Lg >>.....before jumping to respond. >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Lg Just applying a thin layer of grease to the surfaces before mounting the wheel would do. I always do that when shifting winter/summer-wheels and had never had the problem of stuck wheels (as I used to before). /johan >>>.....before jumping to respond. >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >/johan I noticed that the dealership used some kind of oil on the hub and the backside of the alloy wheels before they mounted them. I didn't know what exactly this *stuff* was, but if it is ordinary grease, thanks for the tip. I've got lots of moly-grease I wasn't using. Now we have found a use for it. Thanks for the tip. Lg "Johan Olofsson" <lena.o.johan@telia.com> wrote in message news:95K8f.149329 > Just applying a thin layer of grease to the surfaces before > mounting the wheel would do. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > /johan I found this procedure to be very helpful as well. I lived just west of you,and the winter slush and salt made wheels and lugnuts hard to change. I used some antiseize compound on the lugs as well, to prevent corrosion and seizing. Even though ordinary specs call for dry threads without lubrication, I found this treatment very helpful. Just derate the torque specs 10-20%. > My wife has a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am which needs to have the tires rotated. > The wheel lugs were torqued on pretty tight but my 200 pounds on the lug [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Don How about putting nuts back on finger tight, backing them off half a turn, and move the car for a couple of revs of wheel? I would not DRIVE it that way, but maybe a couple of revs of wheels might help. |
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