blu_fuz
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Couldn't it just be cut off w/ a cutting wheel?
By that post, you clearly don't understand the situation and the options you have to remove the nut without damaging the wheel or stud.Couldn't it just be cut off w/ a cutting wheel?
Since we are in this thread because it was bumped..... You can remove mcguard lug nuts with a 13/16 socket. I have done it twice. Hammer that ••••• on trying not to mess up the hole the socket wrench goes into. You only get one chance with each socket . I even kept the lug with the socket whammered onto it.
You are correct on that. I use a different type of bolt all together on my wheels. Never used ones w/ locks or ones that needed sockets. I use the dimpled round ones. But I assume everything can be cut off, and that is why I asked.By that post, you clearly don't understand the situation and the options you have to remove the nut without damaging the wheel or stud.
The nut doesn't stick out past the face of the wheel so what are you going to cut with a cutoff wheel? If you ground the head off the back of the wheel stud and tried to hamer it through to the front you would be doing a lot of work and I think you still wouldn't be able to get it out because the holes for the wheel studs are pitched.
Hammering the socket on is the easiest, quickest way to do it, and it worked for both McGard nuts I had to remove.
Well, I figured the socket would slip since I do pretty much torque those things on to stay. We have specialty sockets to remove those lugs at O'Reilly, but everybody brings them back saying they don't work.
2 year old thread indeed. It'll be priceless to anyone who needs it.................