Ok so I changed one of my leaf springs and move over to the other side and I can't get one of the lug nuts off the wheel. I used a deep socket and a 4 foot breaker bar and it completely rounded the nut. I spent $30 on a reverse nut extractor set and it didn't work at all. I took the truck to the garage today and they spend half an hour destroying/rounding/stripping the nut even more and now they say there is no way to get it off except for cutting it off with a torch and destroying the mag. Is there really nothing else I can do or do I have to wreck my nice jeep rim???

 

If its the cheap lugs with the caps, beat it til the cap comes off than go one size smaller socket and get it off. If not you will most likely have to cut it.

 

Happened with the crappy lug nuts that came with my Durango about a year or so ago. This is what the shop had to do to get it off ... and that's after 4 other shops told me they wouldn't touch it. The wheel was undamaged.

Cost $50 to have it drilled off.

Lesson learned ... anyone that tells me that it makes their "business" move along quicker to impact my wheel bolts will hand me my keys & I will drive away.

Good luck.

 

Ok so they drilled out the wheel stud? It looks like I'm gonna have to do that... Is it easy to install a new rear wheel stud on a cherokee? I did one on my talon once just hammered it out and slipped in a new one and used a nut/washer to pull it in. Same deal?

 

I don't know how far they rounded it. I have a set of these, under $15, that say they can "bite" on a rounded nut.




http://www.mysears.com/mysears_blog/...ose-Socket-Set

 

If memory serves, the stud was undamaged. Somehow they managed to drill that lug nut off the stud. I was so impressed & relieved that I took pics. Of course, my memory could be faulty - it was well over a year ago that this happened (I wrote a year above, sorry).

 

Alright!!! My dad drilled out the stud and we got the wheel off without damaging the rim. Now I just gotta pick up a new stud..