Locking wheel lugnuts
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Locking wheel lugnuts
I have a 2004 Silverado. It had 20" Helo wheels on it. Problem is my son lost my lock key for my wheels. I have one of the locking nuts off of it. Any ideas on how I can get a key to fit the rest of them. My local tire shop has a tool but it is two big to fit in the hole the lugnut is in. I am going to have to get the wheels off eventually, unless my tires last forever. LOL
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If you can not get a new key you may have to have someone use a air chisel. That should be last resort,it would be very easy to slip and hit the wheel.
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The same thing happened to me when I bought a 1997 4-Runner. They had aftermarket rims (that I was not a fan of, prefer the stock over those) and they flared out some so the hole to get to the lug was HUGE. A guy I knows runs a tire shop and he honestly couldn't do anything about it, I took it to a mechanic friend of mine and he got it off. What he did was he stripped it small enough and then forced that sucker off.
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The problem I am going to have is that my wheels are made so that you can not get to the lugnuts. Here is pic of them I took during a blizzard.
http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p...nt=snow010.jpg
http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p...nt=snow010.jpg
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i used a rednek way once. took an old socket that didn't quite fit over the nut, beat it on, then used a breaker bar. not a great way, but in a pinch. unless you have, or have access to, an air chisel as MDTAHOE suggested.
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The problem I am going to have is that my wheels are made so that you can not get to the lugnuts. Here is pic of them I took during a blizzard.
http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p...nt=snow010.jpg
http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p...nt=snow010.jpg
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any desent tire shop should have a set of these. i use to keep a couple of different types on my wrecker years ago
http://www.awdirect.com/easy-off-met...quipmenttools/
also Sears also sells them also..
good luck
http://www.awdirect.com/easy-off-met...quipmenttools/
also Sears also sells them also..
good luck
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do this.. beat that sucker on there good.. and to get the lug out. put the socket in a vise and sick a strew driver or sumthing in ther socket and beat it out....
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