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Can't get Nuts off with Tyre Iron-Help??

  • 14-07-2011 8:39pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭


    Hello,

    Want to change a wheel on my Transit swb, but can't get the nuts off any of the wheels with the tyre iron that came with the van.

    Have tried a bit of WD40 and asked a friend who's a few stone bigger and stronger - no joy - iron always slips.

    Is there any point in getting a new tyre iron or is it more lightly that the nuts were over tightened in a garage with a gun of some kind.

    My own mechanic is a fair distance away, How much would a tyre place / garage charge to loosen them all for me, and let me re-tighten them by hand so I can open them when I need to.

    Cheers , don't want to get stuck with a flat and have to pay some crazy call out fee


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,637 ✭✭✭TheBody


    You could try getting a long tubular pipe and slipping it over the end of the tyre iron to give yourself more leverage. That should do the trick for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,861 ✭✭✭stimpson


    2 things to try - whack em with a hammer and chisel. Then try to loosen them.

    Failing that heat them up with a blowtorch.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,900 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I find I have to give the tyre iron a good kick to get it loose enough to take them off by hand.


  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Swift66 wrote: »
    ........... How much would a tyre place / garage charge to loosen them all for me, and let me re-tighten them by hand so I can open them when I need to.............

    Quite close to nothing I imagine, once the nuts aren't rounded.
    A decent extendable wheel brace should do the trick though.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I find I have to give the tyre iron a good kick to get it loose enough to take them off by hand.

    This. During my driving test a few years ago, I got a puncture on the driving schools car, and was fecked trying to get the nuts off. In front of the tester I got the tyre iron into position and jumped on it.

    It worked.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,547 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Get a breaker bar, all you need is leverage and they will come off. I have yet to meet a nut that was able to withstand the breaker bar, it either opens or it burst open with it :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    If the wheel brace keeps slipping off check and see if its the right size for the studs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    If the wheel brace is slipping off the nuts get a 6 sided socket and a decent knuckle bar

    The newer transit has a 21mm nut afair and a fairly coarse thread on the studs so should open handy enough. Stop using the brace if it is slipping, you will end up wrecking the nuts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,421 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    I've never seen a tyre iron that comes with any car that's any use.

    You need a breaker bar with the correct size socket on it. Or one of the x shaped wheel braces, with a bar over it.

    It's all about applying torque in the right plane,you might need to use a scissors jack to support the brace so u can apply the force correctly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Swift66


    Cheers for all the replies lads,

    O.K. so I'm gonna get this breaker bar:

    http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_196407_langId_-1_categoryId_212616#dtab

    Anyone know what size socket I need to get?? Are they a standard size on ford transits??

    Mine is an '01 swb.

    Thanks


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    Nearly 100% sure it is a 21mm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 843 ✭✭✭spiggotpaddy


    ok then when did we start saying tire iron?
    i must have been on vacation that day.

    do y'all keep it in the trunk?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Swift66


    Got breaker bar with sockets in Auto parts Finglas, was only €10 , vs the €30 I would have paid in Halfords for breaker bar and socket.

    Socket size was 19mm by the way , was trying the 21mm and kept slipping , flipped over to the 19mm , just right, cheers for the help


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