Dylan Johnson
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My car needs rear disc brakes BADLY so I bought the parts and tried to take the wheels off but the locking nut key was rounded off, ok no biggie ill just take it to a garage and get them air chiseled off... Nope, FOUR garages later and none of them have got any nut to turn a tiny bit (despite 2 of the garages guaranteeing me success).
So 6 days and many garages later I decided to try myself... I tried to drill the security ring off and went through roughly £30 worth of drill bits with 0 luck, I even tried an SDS chisel and the nuts still looked exactly the same as day 1, then I found a new wheel brace which ive never used which had the perfect size socket to wack on so I did and managed to get 1 security ring off, now i'm getting somewhere so I tried to wack a big socket over it which gripped amazing until it caved in which now means no socket at all will fit on it...
Many people and many drills have tried to drill directly down the middle of the nuts and have barely, barely dented it its like its made from some alien material. Where are alloys theifs when you need them ?
Reverse thread locking nut removal sockets have also been tried but no one has been able to remove the security rings.
Anyway rant over if anyone has any ideas they definitely will be tried
So 6 days and many garages later I decided to try myself... I tried to drill the security ring off and went through roughly £30 worth of drill bits with 0 luck, I even tried an SDS chisel and the nuts still looked exactly the same as day 1, then I found a new wheel brace which ive never used which had the perfect size socket to wack on so I did and managed to get 1 security ring off, now i'm getting somewhere so I tried to wack a big socket over it which gripped amazing until it caved in which now means no socket at all will fit on it...
Many people and many drills have tried to drill directly down the middle of the nuts and have barely, barely dented it its like its made from some alien material. Where are alloys theifs when you need them ?
Reverse thread locking nut removal sockets have also been tried but no one has been able to remove the security rings.
Anyway rant over if anyone has any ideas they definitely will be tried
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