my oldest son needed a brake job, but once we started the process we found he had mis-placed his special keyed socket to remove the wheel locks.
now if you have one in your tool kit you can try one of these as it will work on many but not all designs
http://www.endeavorproducts.com/King_Ga ... ocket.html
now theres many different designs of those wheel stud locks and not all design,s are best removed with a single process, on some designs a cheap socket can be driven on with a hammer and a breaker bar can be used to remove them, but obviously this tends to destroy both the lock nut and the socket
there are tools that work on many applications
http://www.google.com/products/catalog? ... sa=title#p
http://www.mackay.co.uk/Suppliers/Seale ... rrency=USD
http://www.bizrate.com/automotive-repai ... k-remover/
http://www.tools247.co.uk/Specialised-S ... rrency=USD
http://www.mackay.co.uk/Suppliers/Seale ... rrency=USD
but naturally I did not have instant access to the tool and obviously removing them was mandatory, and vise grips won,t grip it because the metals far to hard and smooth,
I did not want to screw up his mag wheels so I used a die grinder/ cut off tool, to first cut a slot about 1/4" deep across the top of the locking wheel lug nut thinking I could use a large screw driver to unscrew the nuts, (this failed)but I found a couple hard whacks, with a cold chisel on the hard metal split the lock nuts rather easily once the die grinder had been used to cut the slot., the two half's, of the split nut were then reasonably easy to remove, after a few more whacks disengaged the half's from the threads on the wheel studs , the wheel studs threads were lightly damaged so the studs needed replacement but other than the need for 4 new studs which were easy to drive out and replace and the need for a new set of locking lug nuts, the who project took less than 30 minutes so I considered it a basic success.
While obviously not the type of thing that you want to be doing regularly, its almost mandatory if you lost your special key socket
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=47077
now if you have one in your tool kit you can try one of these as it will work on many but not all designs
http://www.endeavorproducts.com/King_Ga ... ocket.html
now theres many different designs of those wheel stud locks and not all design,s are best removed with a single process, on some designs a cheap socket can be driven on with a hammer and a breaker bar can be used to remove them, but obviously this tends to destroy both the lock nut and the socket
there are tools that work on many applications
http://www.google.com/products/catalog? ... sa=title#p
http://www.mackay.co.uk/Suppliers/Seale ... rrency=USD
http://www.bizrate.com/automotive-repai ... k-remover/
http://www.tools247.co.uk/Specialised-S ... rrency=USD
http://www.mackay.co.uk/Suppliers/Seale ... rrency=USD
but naturally I did not have instant access to the tool and obviously removing them was mandatory, and vise grips won,t grip it because the metals far to hard and smooth,
I did not want to screw up his mag wheels so I used a die grinder/ cut off tool, to first cut a slot about 1/4" deep across the top of the locking wheel lug nut thinking I could use a large screw driver to unscrew the nuts, (this failed)but I found a couple hard whacks, with a cold chisel on the hard metal split the lock nuts rather easily once the die grinder had been used to cut the slot., the two half's, of the split nut were then reasonably easy to remove, after a few more whacks disengaged the half's from the threads on the wheel studs , the wheel studs threads were lightly damaged so the studs needed replacement but other than the need for 4 new studs which were easy to drive out and replace and the need for a new set of locking lug nuts, the who project took less than 30 minutes so I considered it a basic success.
While obviously not the type of thing that you want to be doing regularly, its almost mandatory if you lost your special key socket
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=47077