Was trying to remove the rear wheel off of my del sol and one of the lug nuts was pretty tough to come off, half way off it just started spinning freely, I looked and its not spinning the stud, thats staying in place but the threads just must be so chewed up that the lug nut is just stuck in the middle of the threads just turning over

any ideas on what to do to remove it?

 

get a strong impact and tighten it back down to break the lug stud. thats all i could think of.

 

put the other 3 back on and take it to a shop.

chances are they'll end up fucking your wheel up, just not as bad as you will.

 

hahahha..your a genius.

Thats all I could think of.

 

let me help you out here, Got a sawzaw? IF you do, cut in the middle a - so that u can get a flathead screwdriver in there, be reasonable, not to shallow not to deep, this may work i know it does for some other random things so..

 

get a BIGGGGG hammer

 

Pull the wheel twards you. and zip it of with a impact gun. Gotta have tension on the lug nut. Worked for me when I was a wheel and tire tech.

 

Thats how we do it at Nissan

 

acetylene torch...or get an air hammer and split the lugnut in half

 

Try heating it with a torch....this happend on my car a few times...get it cherry hot than rachet it off....worked fine...and it didnt fuck up the threads