HELP!!! I cant get the wheels off my car!!! ---

[alwayscode390]

So I put a set of vette' sawblades on my z28 for the drags lastnight ( had mt dr's ) and now they wont come off the lugs!!! I have tried to yank on them, kick them, and hit them with a bat....any ideas?! I need to get to work tonight and its supposed to rain!!! ---

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[H-TOWN-TYPHOON]

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Call this guy. He'll knock the wheel off with his BFH.

If you can't find his number, use your own BFH. Or stand facing away from the wheel and mule kick the shit out of the bottom of the tire. Turn the wheel and repeat. That method sucks, but it's worked for me before.

 

[KDBL1]

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Use a rag so you don't damage the rim and hit it with a small sledge hammer, any auto supply store should have one. Rotate the rim and hit it in different places.

 

[Silly]

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Those tired should handle fine in the rain

 

[alwayscode390]

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Thanks guys, what an f'n pain!!! They are ET MT's .... I am not going to risk driving on the highway in the rain with them, so its time to drive the Syclone with whatever is broken in the frontend for the week, lmfao. I will get a sledge because I tried laying on my back and kicking it as hard as I could while turning it and all I got was a sore leg, hahah. They arent contacting anything, but seem "welded" on

If I tried wacking the studs with a punch, maybe that will knock them loose? ---

 

[MikeRenz]

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Try taking the lugnuts off first.

 

[BigBadSmoosh]

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i'd probably hit or kick the backside of the tire..
or with the lugs off lower the car, put the weight of it on the wheel, see if that forces it to move a bit..

 

[MikeRenz]

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or w/ the lugs off do donuts until the wheel pops off. shouldn't take too long.

 

[alwayscode390]

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HAHAH thanks Mike....honestly thats why I took the pic with the lugs SHOWING on the ground ... I may leave the lugs LOOSE and drive up and down the road a few times...they were wobbling on the highway on the way to the track (too loose) ... so I trust they wont fall off hahaha. I tried to put the weight of the car back on the tire slow, then even FAST and it didnt budge

If all else fails I will head to the tire shop, I am sure they have a trick ---

 

[Loeryder]

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Just call in sick to work and be done with it.

 

[alwayswantedone]

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Not that it should make a difference with you current problem but aren't they facing the wrong direction or on the wrong side?

 

[alwayscode390]

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Just call in sick to work and be done with it.

I was thinking about it, hahaha.

They may be mounted the wrong direction ( I questioned that too ) , this f'n place did the same thing with my "rotation specific" tires on the sy....time to go back and bitch about it .... then demand they pop them off for me ... I just mounted them with the arrow pointing forward, I am getting PISSED ---

 

[bezerk]

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well, you should hit them for the outside on the rubber with a big hammer,

 

[SY2455]

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I was thinking about it, hahaha.

They may be mounted the wrong direction ( I questioned that too ) , this f'n place did the same thing with my "rotation specific" tires on the sy....time to go back and bitch about it .... then demand they pop them off for me ... I just mounted them with the arrow pointing forward, I am getting PISSED ---

Next time you need to mount the rims on the correct side. This rim belong on the driver side. sounds like the rim is stuck on the axle flange. To get them off try grabbing the rim at the 3pm and 9pm and rocking it back and forth, (IE- in on the front side of rim, out on the rear of the rim) while keeping a steady pulling pressure. Warning it is a pain in the butt, But has always work for me.

 

[Zewerr]

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Back when I worked at Discount Tire, we handled these in stages:

Step 1: As H-Town said, mule kick it until it comes loose. If that fails,

Step 2: Raise or lower the car to just the right height and ram a spare floor jack into the tire (not the wheel, dear god!) until it comes loose. If that fails.

Step 3: Install all the lug nuts about a 1-2 turns from being snug. Drop the car on the ground. Drive back and forth repeatedly about 5-10 feet until the wheel comes loose.

I've never had to go further than that. Actually I only made it to step 3 once in my 4 year career working with them.

Usually wheels don't get stuck onto a hub after they have just been put on. So I'm thinking that there's probably something stuck between the wheel and the hub that's causing this.

 

[Timbo]

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I usually hit them hard from behind with a heavy rubber mallet repeatedly.

 

[TYPHOOL7]

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Next time you need to mount the rims on the correct side. This rim belong on the driver side. sounds like the rim is stuck on the axle flange. To get them off try grabbing the rim at the 3pm and 9pm and rocking it back and forth, (IE- in on the front side of rim, out on the rear of the rim) while keeping a steady pulling pressure. Warning it is a pain in the butt, But has always work for me.

So your saying that he should wait 6 hours before his next attempt if he triest at 3 o'clock? Hes never gonna get them off.

HAHAH thanks Mike....honestly thats why I took the pic with the lugs SHOWING on the ground ... I may leave the lugs LOOSE and drive up and down the road a few times...they were wobbling on the highway on the way to the track (too loose) ... so I trust they wont fall off hahaha. I tried to put the weight of the car back on the tire slow, then even FAST and it didnt budge

If all else fails I will head to the tire shop, I am sure they have a trick ---

Umm that honestly sounds like you bent the lug thinger majiggers... thats no good, and gonna be real fun to fix. Classicly undertightening will bend (due to weight) the posts of a wheel and make the exact problem your having, each turn made it worse and worse. I did that on a honda civics tire and the way I got it off was cutting the wheel off and replace the studs, yippie! (hopefully thats not the case)

 

[SonomaGTlover]

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It's my guess that the hub is too big for the hole in the rim and that's where it's stuck.
I tried to put my brothers xtreme wheels on the GT once and learned that there are different sizes and the hub is tapered... should have been a given huh? Anyway, it was stuck pretty good for awhile but many many kicks to the tire alternating right and left side finally free'd it up.

 

[alwayscode390]

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Next time you need to mount the rims on the correct side. This rim belong on the driver side. sounds like the rim is stuck on the axle flange. .

Do you SERIOUSLY think that having the wheel on the wrong side could cause this....because I DONT. These idiots mounted the "directional" drag radials on the wrong wheel....so in order to use them I just made sure the tread was in the right direction that night.

I was told by the Camaro guys that the lt1 rear hubs are bigger than the c4 hubs, and its stuck on the center of the rim....I need to grind it out a little bit to make it fit right. I am going to go to the tire place and have them REMOUNT the tires to the correct wheel and if they complain that the stuff is stuck I will say , WELL YOU MOUNTED THEM WRONG. I even wrote LR and RR ( left and right rear on the inside of the wheel ) ... the same douchebag mounted my directional tires on the wrong side of the SYCLONE too ... he must not be able to picture the rotation in his head. THANKS GUYS ---

 

[dgoodhue]

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I would try driving around with loose lugnut or you can try using a big pry bar and stick it through on of the slot on the rim. On disc brakes I pry on the caliper. I had a steel wheels that were rusted to the hub and had to do this.