Removing locking wheel nuts

Post by **Donald** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:49 pm

I would've thought they were all occupied banging on your 'I'm a violent individual' drum

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:11 pm

i am not violent but i always seem to be able make an exception in your case

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:58 pm

Please, please, please!
Reserve the hammers for my nuts.

(Did I really mean that?)

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 11:09 pm

Donald wrote:@Sailor I believe the part number you'd need is 08W42-S1A-601C but apparently there are a ton of different patterns so it's not too helpful...

Honda told me today that the part number is 08181SM4F3, where F3 is the signifier for the actual pattern of the pins. The price, inc vat, is £11.77, which I wouldn't have minded paying, except that no one's got any and they've been discontinued.

mr_drc · Post by **mr_drc** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:04 pm

Have you got it off yet then?

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:10 pm

mr_drc wrote:Have you got it off yet then?

No. The others are all free now, but this one has been well over-torqued.
Someone is sending me a better key. I'll just have to wait for a day or two.

mr_drc · Post by **mr_drc** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:48 pm

Or if ur in a rush the best way I have found to remove locking wheel nuts is with a wheel brace the x type and a bit of scaffolding tube about 1 meter long or longer oh and lump hammer find the size that almost go's over then wack on with hammer place pipe on and give it some jobby has never let me down yet and if I was u I would put other nuts bk on and tighten right up b4 trying to take this one off ps give good spray with wd40 the sockets usually have to many little ridges and just turn ! Trust me I have tried most things all the special removel tools are great if not over tightened!

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:30 pm

Unfortunately, the centre of the nut where you would "wack on with hammer" is hollow and wouldn't take that abuse without crumbling and leaving even less material to get hold of.

In the end, a Dremel plus grinding bit got at it well enough. And we could save the stud. Took ages, though.

Post by **Lude-dude** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:20 am

need to be careful with the hammer method

I have knocked out a stud trying to get a locking nut off before

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:53 pm

In the middle of all the shenanigans, I seem to have lost one of the wheel embellishers. It's black with a kind of beige rim and 'H'.

Here's a cut-out from a much bigger photo - I hope it's enough to see what I mean.

It fits an ATR/Motegi wheel, but I can't find a replacement on Google.