So, the wife comes home yesterday, and comes out to the shop. She says " My car is making a crunchy noise in the front " What?? WTF is that? Her.. " Yeah it crunches when I push on the brake pedal thingy " So I test drive it, needs front brakes. Sooooooo. I order the parts and pull it into the lift bay. Wait till the parts get here 4pm. I go to take the wheels off, left, no problem, Right side...Uh Oh.... It has these BS stainless cap over nut taperd POS lug nuts on it. So the stainless outer spins on one lug for the right side. Try hamming smaller socket on , No dice...Outside is spinning on the inner nut. So I take my miniature air saw and cut slices in the outer so I can remove it. Then I try sockets on the inner nut, No dice....Now I'm thinking split the nut to remove it. Try small chisel and hammer. Bends the chisel. I grind/modify a chisel for my air hammer. Made one nice and small and narrow. Cuts ok along the side of the stud, but won't get into the taper, so the nut will split. Now I'm 2hrs in , trying to get the DAMN wheel off..LOL ....Ok..lets try drilling....Drill 6 1/8 holes along stud and into taper. Enlarge to 1/4 each hole. Hit the remaining wall with air hammer chisel . FINALLY...WTF 3 F'n hours to get the wheel off. Then I gotta go to the parts store myself, cause its 7pm.. Come back, install new stud, brakes, DONE.... 4 HOUR BRAKE JOB....
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I had a stuck lug on the kid's jeep before I sold it and had to torch it off... Burnt the rim a little around that hole, but I got it off.... $900 set of tires I was not going to let go with the car... I bought a set of "*****' rims and tires locally for $125 to sell it....
