Need To Remove A Locking Wheel Lug W/O The Key?

[uglytruk]

I just bought this junker clunker from Austin Texas, and it had a bulge in da tire. Checked da glove box, no "key", but the sticker for the Gorilla Lock was there.

Plan "B"....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jA57WBzrNg

BTW, this isn't it. This GEM is a 2wd 305 SM465 3/4 ton I just filled with cement blocks and "hid" in da woods... Ug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0ACFmAJfw

 

[MTChevy]

haha awesome, you already know i like the video's!

 

[rdn2blazer]

find a 12 point socket that just bairly does not fit over the hex, try a metric if you have to. use a craftsman so you can return it WHEN it cracks, they usually do. pound it on and impact it off. I have done this for friends more then once, works every time.

 

[3car]

use an air hammer and a flat chisel to spin it off. you could have also used this http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_...& Dies&psid=YAHOOSSP01&sid=ISx20070515x00001c

or, slip a pipe over the lock and snap the stud off.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

I had a tire store do it for me, they charged $1 per nut.

 

[uglytruk]

Good idea, I just liked the welding better. + it makes a better vid, don't ya thunk??? And I hate goin' ta Sears, and my back-up car was blocked by the non-running POS Plow Teeruk...

Glad ya liked the vid, turned out well. I was getting worn out, and it's hard to be smiley and chipper for the "acting" part... Ug

 

[vortec]

a few tricks i've used (not on mine. i don't lose my key thing like my friends and family do.)

option 1) hammer an old socket onto the nut and turn like normal

option 2) grind flat sides onto the nut and use a wrench or socket

opton 3) hammer on it in a counter-clockwise motion with a chisel or screwdriver and it might break loose

option 4) cut that thing off.

 

[uglytruk]

I waz also in a panic to get it done, so all the ideas sound good, just tired and rushing... I've got 3 more to go...

Anybody got some aluminum American Racing's 4 sale? these are SOOOOooooo ugly... Ug

 

[chevy wrangler]

dude your vids are the shizznits

 

[DEMON44]

tighten the other 7...........you might find you;ll take the locker off by hand.

 

[thatK30guy]

Nice boots.

 

[Blue85]

Those look like the old gorilla locks that have the little pattern on the head for the key to fit into. I had two different sets of those once and the keys were interchangeable. You might try "any" gorilla key and see if it works.

Of course, after enough uses, the heads of those things wear out. I pounded a socket onto them and turned them off with a breaker bar, like somebody else suggested.

For a semi-float, drum brake rear axle, you can pull the diff cover and slide the axle shaft out with the drum and wheel still attached to grind the head off that wheel stud from the back. I think pounding a socket on is faster, though.

 

[K588]

Used a good impact socket and never have had one break yet usually come off with no visible damage to the socket.

 

[Avery4jc]

haha funny vids...

 

[Russell]

I just use a pipe wrench, pops those suckers off real easy like!

 

[obijuan]

have you tried a lugnut remover? it just bites into it when you back it out

 

[uglytruk]

Well thank you...

Does that mean I win 4 widened wheels??? Ug

dude your vids are the shizznits

 

[spoolnaround]

have you tried a lugnut remover? it just bites into it when you back it out

Hmm never seen one of those.

That video is funny!
If you are going to weld on it weld a nut to the end.
I use the socket method, works great.

 

[uglytruk]

Was rushing 'cause the you-know who was coming home. Closest tool at hand that I didn't mind wasting... Get 'er DONE! Ug

 

[chevy wrangler]

dude those are cool boots