having trouble taking rear tire off
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having trouble taking rear tire off
I'm trying to take my tires off, but ran into a problem. I got the front two off and one off the back, but the other will not come off. i think its rusted to the point of being almost molded to the car? My dad says he has never seen this happen before either? Any ideas or suggestions. thanks
#4
If its not coming off, you dont have a big enough hammer. Get a sledge on that bad oscar and have your friend hold the board while you whack that Ken Griffey Jr style. Thats the Ken Griffey Jr AFTER steriods swing though, not before steroids. Itll come off, so put down your purse and give it a good swing.
#5
Same thing happened to me this last weekend when I was installing my springs. Got all of the wheels off without a problem except the front drivers wheel. I had just had the wheels and rims installed the weekend before by discount tires and thought maybe they screwed something up and called them. They said to bang the tire with a big hammer to loosen it, tried that for a while and it didn't work. Ended up going to discount tire and had them try and remove it. They ended up using a big floor jack and ramming the bottom of the tire until it came loose, took them a while, but it finally came free. what they ended up telling me was that the center hub of the rim was a millimeter too small. The center hub is supposed to be like 72mm and the rim I had was 71mm. They said I either needed to replace the rim with the correct hub size or go to a machine shop and have my current hub grinded to the correct size. Do you have the factory OEM rims or are they aftermarket rims?
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I do tires all day every day at work (well not all day but a lot) put one lug on loosely and do a backward roundhouse kick to the inside of the rim...works for me every time (but i do have quite a bit of martial arts training) when you put the rims back on use a little anti-seize on the huibs to make the job easier to do next time. if that doesnt work....use the wood and sledge trick, although in my 8 years of working on cars i have never had to do that.
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alright, i guess ill just keep banging on it. We were already using the sledge and wood technique for about 25 mins and trust me when i say it wouldnt budge. we hittin it pretty good too haha........
#10
Originally Posted by zigzagg321
I do tires all day every day at work (well not all day but a lot) put one lug on loosely and do a backward roundhouse kick to the inside of the rim...works for me every time (but i do have quite a bit of martial arts training) when you put the rims back on use a little anti-seize on the huibs to make the job easier to do next time. if that doesnt work....use the wood and sledge trick, although in my 8 years of working on cars i have never had to do that.
lol
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stuck wheels
This happened to me also. I put the lugs back on [but not tight!] and drove the car back and forth a few feet with some brisk clutch action. It is better to use the shearing force created by clutch engagement than to HIT the wheel in any way!
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Originally Posted by MattJ
Id die on the floor laughing seeing you do that sucessfully or even unsucessfully. If it was my car, id probably smash you in the face with a monkey wrench, then die on the floor laughing.
lol
lol
And as far as you smashing me with a wrench...it would be blocked and you would regret your swinging it at me. Yeeehaaaaw!
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Originally Posted by zigzagg321
Well, then you'd be dead on the floor laughing. Like I said I do this a lot at work WITH TOTAL SUCESS. In fact a few other techs have asked me to teach them this move because it is a very fast way to remove a stuck wheel. Better to kick the rim with the rubber of my boot then to stop and pick up a hammer or prybar or whatever...the thing i failed to mention is that I work on BMW's for a living...not Fords...Bimmers have no wheel studs so my technique works great. Maybe this wouldnt work on a car with wheel studs instead of lug BOLTS not nuts. let me also correct the move i said, I am not great with the terminology...I believe its called a spinning backwards roundhouse kick (the heel is the striking part, not the ball of the foot).
And as far as you smashing me with a wrench...it would be blocked and you would regret your swinging it at me. Yeeehaaaaw!
And as far as you smashing me with a wrench...it would be blocked and you would regret your swinging it at me. Yeeehaaaaw!
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