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Old September 26th 04, 06:47 AM
Franko
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Find an iron pipe you can hammer/force over the rounded nut (works well on
keyed McGard-style locknuts). Use a pipe wrench to turn iron pipe one way
or the other way. Good luck.

"James P. H. Fuller" > wrote in message
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> Just lugnuts on a farm trailer wheel, but I can't get them off.
> They've been on for years, probably put on with an air wrench,
> certainly good'n'rusted. I've tried socket wrench, cross wrench,
> electric impact wrench, they won't budge. I've used a gallon of Liquid
> Wrench, no joy. I took the trailer to a garage, they put their air
> impact wrench on one nut and just (oh great) rounded it off. The wheel
> is dished in and the lugs are placed in a sort of circular trough
> within the dish, result being I can't get a nut splitter on the frozen
> lugnuts. Can anybody suggest my next step? Blasting? Lightsaber?
> Thanks very much! Jim Fuller,



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