Lost your locking wheel nut key?

Failed at stage one...... He got out of bed in the morning LOL

When one of my mates lost his wheel key one of my other mates at Motorway tyres had the darn thing undone in minutes with some special extractrs :D
 
If that was me I'd have hammered a big torx or allen bit in there and got an air gun on it!

I've been in this situation a few times now :lol: Actually, my rears are still stuck on :lol:
 
we use lock nuts on our donation money boxes, and the damn things are forever getting stuck - a good blast of WD40 and a long arm torque wrench normally free them - I've never been tempted to try a sawzall :nuts:

mind you some theiving barstewards over on the northshore (who are obviously brighter than the OP of the thread linked to) have discovered that halfords sell universal lock nut removers - so we have had to redesign ours to take a collar to stop those fitting on.
 
Great find:1st:
 
eugh what a spoon. I snapped a locking nut tool off once. My own fault, using a chatter gun not paying attention and had only half engaged the splines. When it sheared it jumped sideways and dug into the nut. Tried drill and tap then an M6 bolt and slide hammer and got it out but by that time had mullered the rest of the nut.

So, 4 hours later with a cold chisel and out it came with only a 2mm long scratch to my alloy! The funny thing is this was on my drive the day after I moved house, nobody knew me or who I was and nobody seemed to bat an eyelid at me nicking my own alloy.
 
Like somebody would do that

In the 70s I had a mate who had a Yamaha RD200 2 stroke, he took the head and barrel off and filed and polished the ports out and it was much quicker.

Another mate had an older RD200 and persuaded said mate to do the same to his only it didn't go quite so well, when they put it back together it ran like a pig, left a smoke screen the Navy would have been proud of and did 35mph flat out.

There were fisticuffs over it :lol:
 
jimmyriddle said:
Haha, not sure if it's a repost, but when it comes to cars there are some truely unique attitudes to mechanical sympathy.

http://www.audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267
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thats got to be a joke............ hasnt it :gag:

mind you the truly unique approach isnt limited to cars, there are 'special' participants in every hobby.

a guy I know slightly from another forum heard about this stuff that you paint on your sensor then when its set you peel it off and it takes all the dirt spots off (not something i'd fancy personaly), but unfortunately the stuff was really expensive so he thought he'd do make his own with watered down PVA glue !!!! - you can guess how well that worked out.

nother bloke i know didnt have any two stroke mix for his chainsaw left so he thought he'd use parafin instead (well its red innit so it must be similar ) :bang:

and back on cars a kid i was at school with heard about this mod you can do do an (old) mini where you file the butterfly valve on the carb to get more air and thus higher combusion and more power - so he did it a bit and it worked great, did a bit more still working great - so his thought process was "the more I file this the more power i get - so if I snap the butterly out entirely i'll have a super car" ..... or not

then there was the guy (also at my school) who drilled lots of holes in the manifold of the exhaust of his MG BT so it would sound really loud and powerful and 'impress the chicks' - not very many chicks were impressed but he made a lasting impression on the traffic police.

and lastly there was a guy I lived with at college who one sunny day decided to turn his austin allegro into a convertible by cutting the roof off with an angle grinder - apart from the total lack of roll protection and structural integrity this worked fine, but he rather overlooked the issue of what he was going to do when it rained :lol:
 
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Mank said:
If that was me I'd have hammered a big torx or allen bit in there and got an air gun on it!

I've been in this situation a few times now :lol: Actually, my rears are still stuck on :lol:
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same here... find the best socket to fit around it just about... hammer it on til it cuts its own teeth marks into it, then turn, simples!
 
I had a nightmare afternoon once when I got a flat tyre, and then discovered that the last greasemonkey who had worked on my car had not put the wheel nut back in the glove box. My fault for not checking, but what a mare. Luckily the RAC towed me to a Skoda dealership workshop and they had master keys.
 
Why are we looking at two and four year old threads? Are there no stoopid people around these days?
 
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