Siezed lug nuts?

[Red_LX]

Well, I had my tempo down at the garage the other day and thought I'd see if my mustang wheels would fit the car (I'm fairly sure they don't fit but I had to satisfy my curiosity). Anyway, the lug nuts on that car are siezed on there tight, and I mean even the impact wrench wasn't budging them. I'm guessing the wheels haven't been off this car in a LONG time. I sprayed some liquid wrench on all the lug nuts but have not messed with them since. Should I try getting them off, or just let the tire place mess with them when I go to get my snow tires?

 

[freakintiger]

I had a lug nut seize on my Crown Vic. I was taking the '03 'stang rims off it with an impact wrench(before it went to the boneyard-so they had to come off). On the last wheel there was one that the impact wrench would not budge. What I did was use one of those cross-style lug wrenches with a length of metal pipe over one end of the cross for more leverage(the pipe was from an old clothsline, to give you an idea-about 2.5' in length). The lug nut lost.

 

[JamesBaumann]

Had the same problem with my car a few weeks ago when a buddy (Titanio) and I went to do a tire rotation. Impact would not take it off, wouldn't even budge. So we used a breaker bar and about a 2'6" long piece of hollow piping for more leverage and it finally popped. You just have to try different things and eventually you will have success.

 

[Rebel-OUTLAW]

Let this be a lesson...
use 'never seize' and properly torque your nuts!

As far as leverage is concerned...a good 'bar of justice' works on just about anything and should be valuable addition to every car nuts tool list!

 

[Red_LX]

I've always used anti-sieze on my cars. A guy at Sam's Club once told me that I shouldn't because my wheel could fall off but hell, I don't see why.

Anyway...maybe I'll have to try that. Thing that sucks is these seem to be metric lug nuts so our lug wrenches don't exactly fit, and we don't have any metric 1/2" drive sockets. I'm afraid of rounding off the nuts. Also kinda afraid of breaking off one of the wheel studs.

 

[Rebel-OUTLAW]

A guy at Sam's Club once told me that I shouldn't because my wheel could fall off but hell, I don't see why.

If that were the case than any nut/bolt you put anti-seize on is at risk. I think it's an amazing invention, like duct tape...the world would be the same without it ! I've never had a problem, infact the wheel nuts on my car are a bit harder to spin after the never-seize has been on for a while, they just don't freeze up or bind! Tell'em to blow it out their rear! I only stress properly torq-ing.

 

[Ray III]

The tire place's remedy will be to snap off half the studs, destroy the nuts on the other half, use the wrong size nuts on whatever remains and duct tape the rest together, then lose the wheel center caps.

Fix it yourself while you still can. Oh and make sure those center caps are on before you leave, lol.

 

[Red_LX]

Actually the tempo has steel wheels on it with hubcaps. I think that's part of the reason that they are stuck, I think they're rusted to the wheels.