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Need wheel lug key? Where to buy?

CobraEatr

CobraEatr

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Oh boy. I may be in trouble here. I've owned this thing for close to a year and I haven't yet taken off the tires yet. Well, when I tried to last night I noticed that every wheel has a special locking lug on it in the shape of a 4 leaf clover. CRAP! Is there a place online where I can buy special keyed lugs or do I have to start grinding this mutha off? The guy that sold me the Blazer didn't give me anything with it. Thanks in advance.
 
if you cant find the key go to a good tire shop. thay make tools to remove them and most good tire shops will have a set.

and by the discription you said it sounds like a mcgaurd style from back in the older days. those keys broke all the time and thay came out with better styles.
 
CobraEatr said:
Oh boy. I may be in trouble here. I've owned this thing for close to a year and I haven't yet taken off the tires yet. Well, when I tried to last night I noticed that every wheel has a special locking lug on it in the shape of a 4 leaf clover. CRAP! Is there a place online where I can buy special keyed lugs or do I have to start grinding this mutha off? The guy that sold me the Blazer didn't give me anything with it. Thanks in advance.
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Yeah just go to a tire shop tell them you want to rotate the tires, and then they will ask you for the lock and you look in the glove box and say M... F.... someone stole it.
Can you take them off anyway???
:rolleyes:
 
Here's the problem though, the truck isn't running right now. I'm in the middle of a EFI/carb swap and I'm waiting (probably for a long time) to get the parts in. I guess I can just wait until I get her running again and go to a tire shop, but I was hoping to pull the wheels off before then. I've heard some people talk about hammering a socket on the lug but I can't see how hammering on to a perfectly round lug is going to do anything. Maybe I'm missing something here.
 
CobraEatr said:
Here's the problem though, the truck isn't running right now. I'm in the middle of a EFI/carb swap and I'm waiting (probably for a long time) to get the parts in. I guess I can just wait until I get her running again and go to a tire shop, but I was hoping to pull the wheels off before then. I've heard some people talk about hammering a socket on the lug but I can't see how hammering on to a perfectly round lug is going to do anything. Maybe I'm missing something here.
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hammering a socket is basically what the removal tool they have does. it's a socket that looks like this pictures below. it's inner teeth are slightly smaller than the nut your trying to remove. you wack it on so that the teeth inside dig into the nut, when you get err on there nice and tight put your impact gun and BAM it should come right off. I say should cause depending on how tight you have it on there it might take you a few attempts to get the socket on there just right. I've done the same thing witha normal socket to a damaged nut before....it sometime works.

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I just weld a good lug nut to the keyed one and pull it off w/ an impact. Id do all those ones first, then take the other lugs off. You can bang sockets on and get it off that way, but you have to sacrifice 4 sockets because they are stuck after you beat them on.
 
CobraEatr said:
Oh boy. I may be in trouble here. I've owned this thing for close to a year and I haven't yet taken off the tires yet. Well, when I tried to last night I noticed that every wheel has a special locking lug on it in the shape of a 4 leaf clover. CRAP! Is there a place online where I can buy special keyed lugs or do I have to start grinding this mutha off? The guy that sold me the Blazer didn't give me anything with it. Thanks in advance.
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There is one more way:
There used to be a TV add about a socket that can spin any shape bolt, and I bought a smilar design from Kragen a year ago, I don't know if they are still available but they have spring loaded pins inside the socket and when you push it on the lug nut, the ones that are in the way will be pushed inside and you end up with the shape of your lug nuts or very close which is enough to spin off a nut.
I have one if you can't find one local.
 
imiceman44 said:
There is one more way:
There used to be a TV add about a socket that can spin any shape bolt, and I bought a smilar design from Kragen a year ago, I don't know if they are still available but they have spring loaded pins inside the socket and when you push it on the lug nut, the ones that are in the way will be pushed inside and you end up with the shape of your lug nuts or very close which is enough to spin off a nut.
I have one if you can't find one local.
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GATOR GRIP ITS BACK AGAIN. :eek1::bow::haha:
 
I have always removed those locks by pounding a impact socket over them and using a breaker bar to loosen. Always worked for me.
 
dhcomp said:
Or with the stock lug tool? or in the spare tire well?

Same steps i go through to find my super sized lug socket every time i need it.......:haha:
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Yep. First time I had a flat was out in the middle of nowhere on a dove hunt. About the time I start pitchin a fit and throwing things, my dad goes "did you check the ashtray, thats where I used to always keep mine". I actually had, but he pulled it out and shook it and the thing came falling out. Never hurts to look twice.
 
Yep, I checked the ashtray. That bad boy is nowhere to be found. I guess I'm going to have to buy 4 of the removal lugs so that I can beat them on. I'm going to replace them with regular lugs. I seriously doubt that anyone is going to carry a hi-lift jack with them to try and steal my wheels.
 
sweetk30 said:
GATOR GRIP ITS BACK AGAIN. :eek1::bow::haha:
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Is that what they call them?
You know, they don't work as great as the TV commercial shows them but they still are handy for odd shapes, and for the time you don't want to guess the size of a bolt, just stick that thing and twist.
:D
 
Ok guys, you will have to forgive me because I'm legally retarded in 17 states, but do the sockets get pounded on the key design in the lug, or do they get pounded around the entire round lug? I haven't done any serious hammering yet but I put a 1/2" socket up to the lug and it's nowhere near being able to cover the entire lug, however it's slightly close to the design size (1/2" sockets was mentioned by someone else). I'm going to guess that the idea is to pound over the key design, which in my case is shaped like a 4-leaf clover? Also, when I put a socket up to the key design and hammered once or twice it looked damn near impossible to pound a socket on there......and I'm a big guy. Be gentle on me guys, I'm a little slow. :o
 
Unless the lock is the style where the whole body spins freely, you will be pounding the socket over the whole shebang.
 
Gonna depend on the size of the lock. One that looks like it will almost fit on. Its metal on metal, so a BFH can only make up for a little bit of size difference.
 
Find the smallest socket that will just fit over the whole lug. Then pound on a socket 1/16"- 1/8" smaller.
 
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